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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>1995-10-18 08:53:40 +0000
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)w.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dt W 1
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm w
+.Nd "who present users are and what they are doing"
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm w
+.Op Fl hin
+.Op Fl M Ar core
+.Op Fl N Ar system
+.Op Ar user
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm w
+utility prints a summary of the current activity on the system,
+including what each user is doing.
+The first line displays the current time of day, how long the system has
+been running, the number of users logged into the system, and the load
+averages.
+The load average numbers give the number of jobs in the run queue averaged
+over 1, 5 and 15 minutes.
+.Pp
+The fields output are the user's login name, the name of the terminal the
+user is on, the host from which the user is logged in, the time the user
+logged on, the time since the user last typed anything,
+and the name and arguments of the current process.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl h
+Suppress the heading.
+.It Fl i
+Output is sorted by idle time.
+.It Fl M
+Extract values associated with the name list from the specified
+core instead of the default
+.Dq /dev/kmem .
+.It Fl N
+Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the
+default
+.Dq /netbsd .
+.It Fl n
+Show network addresses as numbers (normally
+.Nm w
+interprets addresses and attempts to display them symbolically).
+.El
+.Pp
+If a
+.Ar user
+name is specified, the output is restricted to that user.
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmp -compact
+.It Pa /var/run/utmp
+list of users on the system
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr who 1 ,
+.Xr finger 1 ,
+.Xr ps 1 ,
+.Xr uptime 1 ,
+.Sh BUGS
+The notion of the
+.Dq current process
+is muddy.
+The current algorithm is ``the highest numbered process on the terminal
+that is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered
+process on the terminal''.
+This fails, for example, in critical sections of programs like the shell
+and editor, or when faulty programs running in the background fork and fail
+to ignore interrupts.
+(In cases where no process can be found,
+.Nm w
+prints
+.Dq \- . )
+.Pp
+The
+.Tn CPU
+time is only an estimate, in particular, if someone leaves a background
+process running after logging out, the person currently on that terminal is
+.Dq charged
+with the time.
+.Pp
+Background processes are not shown, even though they account for
+much of the load on the system.
+.Pp
+Sometimes processes, typically those in the background, are printed with
+null or garbaged arguments.
+In these cases, the name of the command is printed in parentheses.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm w
+utility does not know about the new conventions for detection of background
+jobs.
+It will sometimes find a background job instead of the right one.
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The
+.Fl f ,
+.Fl l ,
+.Fl s ,
+and
+.Fl w
+flags are no longer supported.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.Ux 3.0 .