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32.\"     @(#)who.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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35.Dd May 8, 2002
36.Dt WHO 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm who
40.Nd display who is on the system
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl HmqsTu
44.Op Cm am I
45.Op Ar file
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility displays information about currently logged in users.
50By default, this includes the login name, tty name, date and time of login and
51remote hostname if not local.
52.Pp
53The options are as follows:
54.Bl -tag -width indent
55.It Fl H
56Write column headings above the output.
57.It Fl m
58Show information about the terminal attached to standard input only.
59.It Fl q
60.Dq Quick mode Ns :
61List the names and number of logged in users in columns.
62All other command line options are ignored.
63.It Fl s
64Show the name, line and time fields only.
65This is the default.
66.It Fl T
67Indicate whether each user is accepting messages.
68One of the following characters is written:
69.Bl -tag -width x -compact
70.It +
71User is accepting messages.
72.It \&-
73User is not accepting messages.
74.It ?
75An error occurred.
76.El
77.It Fl u
78Show idle time for each user in hours and minutes as
79.Ql hh:mm ,
80.Ql \&.
81if the user has been idle less that a minute and
82.Ql old
83if the user has been idle more than 24 hours.
84.It Cm am I
85Equivalent to
86.Fl m .
87.El
88.Pp
89By default,
90.Nm
91gathers information from the file
92.Pa /var/run/utmp .
93An alternate
94.Ar file
95may be specified which is usually
96.Pa /var/log/wtmp
97(or
98.Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
99depending on site policy as
100.Pa wtmp
101can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
102be kept around after compression by
103.Xr ac 8 ) .
104The
105.Pa wtmp
106file contains a record of every login, logout,
107crash, shutdown and date change
108since
109.Pa wtmp
110was last truncated or
111created.
112.Pp
113If
114.Pa /var/log/wtmp
115is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
116or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'.  Logouts produce
117an output line without any user name.  For more information on the
118special characters, see
119.Xr utmp 5 .
120.Sh FILES
121.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
122.It Pa /var/run/utmp
123.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
124.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
125.El
126.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
127.Ex -std
128.Sh SEE ALSO
129.Xr last 1 ,
130.Xr users 1 ,
131.Xr w 1 ,
132.Xr utmp 5
133.Sh STANDARDS
134The
135.Nm
136utility conforms to
137.St -p1003.1-2001 .
138.Sh HISTORY
139A
140.Nm
141command appeared in
142.At v1 .
143