From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 1: 9:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (adsl-63-192-209-55.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.209.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A65B37B5C5 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:09:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25B6CDE; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:09:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:09:17 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Dennis Jun Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does "who" work in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000313010917.A2095@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: <20000313084359.20976.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <20000313084359.20976.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>; from dennisjun@yahoo.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:43:59AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 at 00:43:59 -0800, Dennis Jun wrote: > Hello! Being new to FreeBSD and UN*X in general, I picked up a book on > UN*X. One of the simple basic commands the author was explaining about > was "who", with all the different options, such as: -b last reboot, -d > dead processes that have not respawned, -q lists only the user names > and a count of users, and so on. However, when i tried on my recently > installed 3.4-RELEASE box, they didn't work. Now the author said that > certain options aren't present in certain flavours of UN*X, however, > NONE of the options worked for me. Only, whoami and who > /var/run/utmp. Am I doing something wrong? No, you're not doing anything wrong. Read the who(1) manpage for more information. - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message