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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man1/w.1 b/static/freebsd/man1/w.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2dbcffde --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man1/w.1 @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd September 11, 2025 +.Dt W 1 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm w +.Nd "display who is logged in and what they are doing" +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl -libxo +.Op Fl dhin +.Op Fl M Ar core +.Op Fl N Ar system +.Op Ar user ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +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 following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl -libxo +Generate output via +.Xr libxo 3 +in a selection of different human and machine readable formats. +See +.Xr xo_options 7 +for details on command line arguments. +.It Fl d +dumps out the entire process list on a per controlling +tty basis, instead of just the top level process. +.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 +.Pa /dev/kmem . +.It Fl N +Extract the name list from the specified system instead of the +default +.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel . +.It Fl n +Do not attempt to resolve network addresses (normally +.Nm +interprets addresses and attempts to display them as names). +When +.Fl n +is specified more than once, hostnames stored in utmp are attempted to +resolve to display them as network addresses. +.El +.Pp +If one or more +.Ar user +names are specified, the output is restricted to those users. +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/run/utx.active" -compact +.It Pa /var/run/utx.active +list of users on the system +.El +.Sh EXAMPLES +Show global activity of the system: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ 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 +.Ed +.Pp +Show the entire process list per tty: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ 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 +.Ed +.Pp +Same as above but only for the root user and omitting the heading: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +$ w -d -h root + 1183 login [pam] (login) + 1204 -bash (bash) +root v1 - 7:15PM - -bash (bash) +.Ed +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The +.Fl f , +.Fl l , +.Fl s , +and +.Fl w +flags are no longer supported. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr finger 1 , +.Xr ps 1 , +.Xr uptime 1 , +.Xr who 1 , +.Xr libxo 3 , +.Xr xo_options 7 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +command appeared in +.Bx 3.0 . +.Sh BUGS +The notion of the +.Dq current process +is muddy. +The current algorithm is +.Do +the highest numbered process on the terminal +that is not ignoring interrupts, or, if there is none, the highest numbered +process on the terminal +.Dc . +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 +prints +.Ql \- . ) +.Pp +The 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 +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. |