1WHOWATCH(1)                 General Commands Manual                WHOWATCH(1)
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NAME

6       whowatch - watch logged in users and processes in real time
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DESCRIPTION

9       Whowatch  is  an  interactive  ncurses  who-like  utility that displays
10       information about the users currently logged  on  to  the  machine,  in
11       real-time.   Besides  standard  informations  (login  name,  tty, host,
12       user's process), the type of the connection  (ie.  telnet  or  ssh)  is
13       shown.   Display  of users command line can be switch to tty idle time.
14       Certain user can be selected and his processes tree may  be  viewed  as
15       well  as tree of all system processes. Tree may be displayed with addi‐
16       tional column that shows owner of each process.  In  the  process  tree
17       mode  SIGINT  and  SIGKILL signals can be sent to the selected process.
18       Killing processes is just as simple and fun as deleting  lines  on  the
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21       Whowatch  has  no  command  line  options  or  configuration file.  All
22       actions are performed in real time by pressing following keys:
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29       'i'    toggle between user command line and idle time
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31       'c'    full command line on/off. Disabling full command line  can  save
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38       't'    all system processes (init tree)
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50       'c'    full command line on/off. Disabling full command line  can  save
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62       Program reads /var/log/wtmp, /var/run/utmp. Under  Linux  program  also
63       reads  files  from  /proc directory. Without read access to these files
64       whowatch funcionality will be limited or program will not even start.
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SEE ALSO

68       finger(1) ps(1), pstree(1), top(1), w(1),
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BUGS

72       Because lack of ut_pid in utmp and wtmp  structures  in  *BSD  systems,
73       program  tries  to  obtain  pid of a login shell by analizing processes
74       controlling terminal and processes names. Under some conditions it  may
75       lead  to  incorrect  results ie. there will be incorrect processes tree
76       associated with user's session.
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AUTHOR

80       Michal Suszycki <mike@wizard.ae.krakow.pl>,
81       http://wizard.ae.krakow.pl/~mike
82       Tree functions written by Jan Bobrowski <jb@wizard.ae.krakow.pl>,
83       http://wizard.ae.krakow.pl/~jb
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87                                  27 Feb 2000                      WHOWATCH(1)
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