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31.Dd May 8, 2002
32.Dt WHO 1
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm who
36.Nd display who is on the system
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl HmqsTu
40.Op Cm am I
41.Op Ar file
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility displays information about currently logged in users.
46By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
47remote hostname if not local.
48.Pp
49The options are as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width indent
51.It Fl H
52Write column headings above the output.
53.It Fl m
54Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
55.It Fl q
56.Dq "Quick mode" :
57List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
58All other command line options are ignored.
59.It Fl s
60Show the name, line and time fields only.
61This is the default.
62.It Fl T
63Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
64One of the following characters is written:
65.Pp
66.Bl -tag -width 1n -compact
67.It Li +
68User is accepting messages.
69.It Li \&-
70User is not accepting messages.
71.It Li \&?
72An error occurred.
73.El
74.It Fl u
75Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
76.Ar hh Ns : Ns Ar mm ,
77.Ql \&.
78if the user has been idle less that a minute, and
79.Dq Li old
80if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
81.It Cm am I
82Equivalent to
83.Fl m .
84.El
85.Pp
86By default,
87.Nm
88gathers information from the file
89.Pa /var/run/utx.active .
90An alternate
91.Ar file
92may be specified which is usually
93.Pa /var/log/utx.log
94(or
95.Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
96depending on site policy as
97.Pa utx.log
98can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
99be kept around after compression by
100.Xr ac 8 ) .
101The
102.Pa utx.log
103file contains a record of every login, logout,
104crash, shutdown and date change
105since
106.Pa utx.log
107was last truncated or
108created.
109.Pp
110If
111.Pa /var/log/utx.log
112is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
113or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.
114Logouts produce
115an output line without any user name.
116For more information on the
117special characters, see
118.Xr getutxent 3 .
119.Sh ENVIRONMENT
120The
121.Ev COLUMNS , LANG , LC_ALL
122and
123.Ev LC_TIME
124environment variables affect the execution of
125.Nm
126as described in
127.Xr environ 7 .
128.Sh FILES
129.Bl -tag -width /var/log/utx.log.[0-6] -compact
130.It Pa /var/run/utx.active
131.It Pa /var/log/utx.log
132.It Pa /var/log/utx.log.[0-6]
133.El
134.Sh EXIT STATUS
135.Ex -std
136.Sh SEE ALSO
137.Xr last 1 ,
138.Xr users 1 ,
139.Xr w 1 ,
140.Xr getutxent 3
141.Sh STANDARDS
142The
143.Nm
144utility conforms to
145.St -p1003.1-2001 .
146.Sh HISTORY
147A
148.Nm
149command appeared in
150.At v1 .
151