/var/run/utx.active
list of users on the system
w1
Display who is logged in and what they are doing
Usage
w [--libxo]
[-dhin]
[-M
core]
[-N
system]
[user ...]
Overview
The 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.
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.
The following options are available:
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--libxo -
Generate output via libxo(3) in a selection of different human and machine readable formats. See xo_options(7) for details on command line arguments.
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-d -
dumps out the entire process list on a per controlling tty basis, instead of just the top level process.
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-h -
Suppress the heading.
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-i -
Output is sorted by idle time.
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-M -
Extract values associated with the name list from the specified core instead of the default /dev/kmem.
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-N -
Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the default /boot/kernel/kernel.
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-n -
Do not attempt to resolve network addresses (normally
winterprets addresses and attempts to display them as names). When-nis specified more than once, hostnames stored in utmp are attempted to resolve to display them as network addresses.
If one or more user names are specified, the output is restricted to those users.
Files
Examples
Show global activity of the system:
$ w 8:05PM up 35 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.09, 0.35, 0.27 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux) root v1 - 8:03PM 1 -bash (bash) fernape pts/0 tmux(1391).%0 8:04PM - w
Show the entire process list per tty:
$ w -d
8:12PM up 42 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.11, 0.17
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
1199 login [pam] (login)
1207 -bash (bash)
1507 tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux)
fernape v0 - 7:30PM - tmux: client (/tmp/tmux-1001/default) (tmux)
1488 login [pam] (login)
1489 -bash (bash)
root v1 - 8:08PM 3 -bash (bash)
1510 -bash (bash)
1515 w -d
fernape pts/0 tmux(1509).%0 8:11PM - w -d
Same as above but only for the root user and omitting the heading:
$ w -d -h root 1183 login [pam] (login) 1204 -bash (bash) root v1 - 7:15PM - -bash (bash)
Compatibility
The -f, -l, -s, and -w flags are no longer supported.
Releases
87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 47 times.
- 2.0.5–2.1.7.1
- 2.2.2
- 2.2.5
- 2.2.6–2.2.8
- 2.2.9
- 3.0–3.2
- 3.3
- 3.4–3.5.1
- 4.0–4.2
- 4.3
- 4.4
- 4.5–4.11
- 5.0–5.5
- 6.0–6.3
- 6.4
- 7.0
- 7.1
- 7.2
- 7.3
- 7.4
- 8.0
- 8.1
- 8.2
- 8.3
- 8.4
- 9.0
- 9.1
- 9.2
- 9.3
- 10.0
- 10.1
- 10.2
- 10.3
- 10.4
- 11.0
- 11.1
- 11.2
- 11.3
- 11.4
- 12.0
- 12.1
- 12.2
- 12.3
- 12.4
- 13.0–13.2
- 13.3–14.3
- 14.4–14.5
- 15.0–16.0
--libxo since FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE;
-d since FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE.