Re: Advice needed: updating whowatch 1.4 → 1.8.6 on FreeBSD (wtmp/utmpx issues)

On 07/01/2026 17:15, Marek Zarychta wrote:

> I don’t know the exact use case or how /whowatch/ works, but the | 
> tcsh(1)| shell still has a very nice feature for watching users who log 
> in or out. It can be enabled with the command
> |set watch = (1 any any)|.
> Add this to |.cshrc| if |csh| or |tcsh| is your shell, and you will be 
> notified whenever someone logs in/out.

Yes, I have this in my .tcshrc.set (included by .cshrc)

whowatch is good in interactive mode, listing all processes owned by 
user, or the tree of all processes similar to what pstree produces:

1 users: (0 local, 0 telnet, 1 ssh, 0 other)  load: 0.15, 0.20, 0.22
57 processes
     1   root     - init
   112   root      |- adjkerntz
   371   root      |- devd
   459   root      |- syslogd
   594   root      |- mountd
   600   root      |- nfsd
   601   root      | `- nfsd
   639   root      |- ntpd
   754   root      |- master
25014   postfix   | |- qmgr
25054   postfix   | |- tlsmgr
76457   postfix   | `- pickup
   760   root      |- php-fpm
14728   www       | |- php-fpm
17668   www       | |- php-fpm
   955   root      |- bsnmpd
   981   root      |- cron
78787   root      | `- cron
78794 ? -1        |   `- -
26727   root      `- sshd
72731   root        `- sshd
72733   usr1          `- sshd
72734   usr1            `- tcsh
79555 R usr1              `- whowatch
enter - users list, c - cmd, o - owner, ^I - send INT, ^K - send KILL

You can then navigate this tree using the arrow keys on your keyboard 
and send INT or KILL to the selected process.
It's nothing magical, but it used to be very convenient (it doesn't work 
for me anymore).

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman