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32 .\" @(#)who.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
40 .Nd display who is logged in
50 a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user
52 tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.
58 Returns the invoker's real user name.
62 gathers information from the file
66 may be specified which is usually
69 .Pa /var/run/wtmp.[0-6]
70 depending on site policy as
72 can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not
73 be kept around after compression by
77 file contains a record of every login, logout,
78 crash, shutdown and date change
87 is being used as the file, the user name may be empty
88 or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'. Logouts produce
89 an output line without any user name. For more information on the
90 special characters, see
93 .Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] -compact
96 .It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]