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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 01:09:17 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
To:        Dennis Jun <dennisjun@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does "who" work in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20000313010917.A2095@luna.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000313084359.20976.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>; from dennisjun@yahoo.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:43:59AM -0800
References:  <20000313084359.20976.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

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