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whowatch Displays information in real time about users currently logged on
1.8.6.3 sysutils on this many watch lists=13 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.8.6.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: jishanalam9128@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2000-06-21 12:50:51
Last Update: 2026-03-30 01:53:58
Commit Hash: 726855d
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License: GPLv2
WWW:
https://github.com/Zedai00/whowatch/
https://github.com/mtsuszycki/whowatch/
Description:
Whowatch is an interactive, ncurses-based, process and users monitoring tool which updates information in real time. It can be described as a some kind of interactive mix of ps, pstree, lsof, w, finger and kill. You can watch information about users currently logged on to the machine: login type - ie. "ssh" "telnet", tty, host, idle time and command line of their current process. You can also naviagate in processes tree, watch process details (memory, uid, open descriptors with TCP sockets mapped on IP:port -> IP:port pair etc.). Whowatch has support for plugins.
HomepageHomepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. bin/whowatch
  2. share/applications/whowatch.desktop
  3. share/man/man1/whowatch.1.gz
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/whowatch-1.8.6.3/catalog.mk
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/whowatch-1.8.6.3/LICENSE
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/whowatch-1.8.6.3/GPLv2
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • whowatch>0:sysutils/whowatch
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/whowatch/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install sysutils/whowatch
  • pkg install whowatch
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: whowatch
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1774717110 SHA256 (Zedai00-whowatch-1.8.6.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 491aedd57a8bbfd41000ee121ad5db236ff131196df0774ee7b5bbc5c7553703 SIZE (Zedai00-whowatch-1.8.6.3_GH0.tar.gz) = 52997

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
whowatch
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
FreeBSD:13:latest--1.4_11.4_2-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly--1.4_11.4_2-n/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest1.8.6.31.8.6.31.4_11.4_21.8.6.31.4_1-1.4_1
FreeBSD:14:quarterly1.8.6.31.8.6.3-1.4_21.8.6.31.4_11.4_11.4_1
FreeBSD:15:latest1.8.6.31.8.6.3n/a1.4_2n/an/a1.4_11.4_1
FreeBSD:15:quarterly1.8.6.31.8.6.3n/a-n/an/a--
FreeBSD:16:latest1.8.6.31.8.6.3n/a-n/an/a--
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. autoconf>=2.72_1 : devel/autoconf
  2. automake>=1.18.1 : devel/automake
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
sysutils_whowatch
USES:
autoreconf ncurses
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://codeload.github.com/Zedai00/whowatch/tar.gz/1.8.6.3?dummy=/
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Number of commits found: 39

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.8.6.3
30 Mar 2026 01:53:58
commit hash: 726855d4b457db969e86a59d391ccd71f83289f6commit hash: 726855d4b457db969e86a59d391ccd71f83289f6commit hash: 726855d4b457db969e86a59d391ccd71f83289f6commit hash: 726855d4b457db969e86a59d391ccd71f83289f6 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Jishan Alam
sysutils/whowatch: Update 1.8.6.2 => 1.8.6.3

Changelog:
- Improve RAM stats
- Fix MAXPATHLEN import causing build failure
https://github.com/Zedai00/whowatch/releases/tag/1.8.6.3

PR:		294097
Sponsored by:	UNIS Labs
1.8.6.2
07 Mar 2026 21:04:18
commit hash: 55476368ccbc3863cec96779d914046a39ac5299commit hash: 55476368ccbc3863cec96779d914046a39ac5299commit hash: 55476368ccbc3863cec96779d914046a39ac5299commit hash: 55476368ccbc3863cec96779d914046a39ac5299 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Jishan Alam
sysutils/whowatch: Update 1.4 => 1.8.6.2, take maintainership

Switch to upstream with FreeBSD support:
- The new update wasn't working on FreeBSD due to Linuxisms and FreeBSD
  wrong API usages.
- Overhauled the codebase in a fork and updated it to work on both
  Linux and FreeBSD.
- Uses of sysctl, libprocstat, kvm etc to gather the system informations.

PR:		293113
MFH:		2026Q1
Co-authored-by:	Vladimir Druzenko <vvd@FreeBSD.org>
1.4_2
05 Mar 2026 17:02:04
commit hash: 8d60ebd11d8a9fabc1e1d7cfd3bb8b3bbfa10aadcommit hash: 8d60ebd11d8a9fabc1e1d7cfd3bb8b3bbfa10aadcommit hash: 8d60ebd11d8a9fabc1e1d7cfd3bb8b3bbfa10aadcommit hash: 8d60ebd11d8a9fabc1e1d7cfd3bb8b3bbfa10aad files touched by this commit
Rodrigo Osorio (rodrigo) search for other commits by this committer
sysutils/whowatch: Revert port removal and mark it broken

This reverts commit 10c44e86de34692159e298a8d3542cecd596c5db.
This reverts commit e49d8ae4238f7402cfc9d9cc61c033c85ceaa818.

Mark sysutils/whowatch broken because current version is completly
unusable in FreeBSD. PR 293113 tries to fix it.
1.4_2
05 Mar 2026 14:09:47
commit hash: e49d8ae4238f7402cfc9d9cc61c033c85ceaa818commit hash: e49d8ae4238f7402cfc9d9cc61c033c85ceaa818commit hash: e49d8ae4238f7402cfc9d9cc61c033c85ceaa818commit hash: e49d8ae4238f7402cfc9d9cc61c033c85ceaa818 files touched by this commit
Rodrigo Osorio (rodrigo) search for other commits by this committer
sysutils/Makefile: Remove sysutils/whowatch

Whowatch was designed as a Linux application that relies
on /var/log/wtmp and /var/run/utmp, which are now legacy
on FreeBSD.

Fixing the application for FreeBSD requires rewriting a large part of it.
1.4_2
26 Feb 2024 07:35:07
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Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh) search for other commits by this committer
sysutils/whowatch: Moved man to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4commit hash: fb16dfecae4a6efac9f3a78e0b759fb7a3c53de4 files touched by this commit
Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
1.4_1
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
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Stefan Eßer (se) search for other commits by this committer
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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1.4_1
20 Jul 2022 14:23:05
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Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) search for other commits by this committer
sysutils: remove 'Created by' lines

A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:

  *  <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com>
  *  Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Aaron Landwehr <aaron@snaphat.com>
  *  Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Adrian Chadd
  *  Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
  *  Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>
  *  Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
  *  Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
  *  Alex Deiter <alex.deiter@gmail.com>
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1.4_1
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
commit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344ebcommit hash: 305f148f482daf30dcf728039d03d019f88344eb files touched by this commit
Mathieu Arnold (mat) search for other commits by this committer
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
1.4_1
19 May 2016 10:53:06
Revision:415500Original commit files touched by this commit
amdmi3 search for other commits by this committer
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [p-x]*

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
1.4_1
05 Feb 2016 17:30:30
Revision:408236Original commit files touched by this commit
antoine search for other commits by this committer
Unbreak
1.4_1
04 Feb 2016 17:24:14
Revision:408059Original commit files touched by this commit
marino search for other commits by this committer
sysutils/whowatch: document ncurses requirement (USES+=ncurses)
1.4_1
14 Oct 2015 23:52:04
Revision:399320Original commit files touched by this commit
amdmi3 search for other commits by this committer
- Add LICENSE
- Drop 8.x support

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
1.4_1
22 May 2015 20:34:29
Revision:387082Original commit files touched by this commit
mat search for other commits by this committer
Remove $FreeBSD$ from patches files everywhere.

With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight
1.4_1
14 May 2015 10:15:09
Revision:386312Original commit files touched by this commit
mat search for other commits by this committer
MASTER_SITES cleanup.

- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
  of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
  no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.

While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.

Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.

Checked by:	make fetch-urlall-list
With hat:	portmgr
Sponsored by:	Absolight
1.4_1
29 Jul 2014 15:00:13
Revision:363335Original commit files touched by this commit
adamw search for other commits by this committer
Rename sysutils/ patch-xy patches to reflect the files they modify.
1.4_1
16 Nov 2013 13:50:54
Revision:333997Original commit files touched by this commit
vanilla search for other commits by this committer
Support STAGEDIR.
1.4_1
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
Revision:327772Original commit files touched by this commit
bapt search for other commits by this committer
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils)
1.4_1
04 Dec 2012 20:39:22
Revision:308272Original commit files touched by this commit
zi search for other commits by this committer
- Reset MAINTAINER due to unrecoverable bounce

Reported by:	portscout
Feature safe:	yes
1.4_1
19 Mar 2011 12:38:54
Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Get Rid MD5 support
1.4_1
10 Feb 2010 14:38:22
Original commit files touched by this commit
miwi search for other commits by this committer
- Fix build on HEAD
- Pass maintainership to submitter

PR:             143509
Submitted by:   Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>
Reviewed by:    ed@
1.4_1
21 Dec 2009 02:19:12
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dougb search for other commits by this committer
For ports maintained by ports@FreeBSD.org, remove names and/or
e-mail addresses from the pkg-descr file that could reasonably
be mistaken for maintainer contact information in order to avoid
confusion on the part of users looking for support. As a pleasant
side effect this also avoids confusion and/or frustration for people
who are no longer maintaining those ports.
1.4_1
06 Jan 2009 17:59:31
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pav search for other commits by this committer
- Remove conditional checks for FreeBSD 5.x and older
1.4_1
04 Apr 2007 08:28:10
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rafan search for other commits by this committer
- Fix build on gcc4
1.4_1
10 Mar 2007 00:46:28
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naddy search for other commits by this committer
LP64 fix
1.4
18 Aug 2006 18:08:54
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linimon search for other commits by this committer
dannyboy is away from FreeBSD work at the moment, so return these to the pool.

Hat:            portmgr
1.4
13 May 2006 04:15:53
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edwin search for other commits by this committer
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with S
1.4
24 Jan 2006 01:06:45
Original commit files touched by this commit
edwin search for other commits by this committer
SHA256ify

Approved by: krion@
1.4
10 Feb 2004 15:08:04
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dannyboy search for other commits by this committer
Add SIZE.
1.4
06 Feb 2004 13:12:53
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
1.4
13 Nov 2003 12:54:57
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trevor search for other commits by this committer
Use the FIND and XARGS macros introduced in bsd.port.mk 1.391.
1.4
16 Aug 2003 16:02:39
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petef search for other commits by this committer
Add MASTER_SITE_PACKETSTORM as an additional mirror.

PR:             52109
Submitted by:   Jim Geovedi <jim@corebsd.or.id>
Approved by:    various maintainers, timeouts
1.4
07 Mar 2003 06:11:20
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ade search for other commits by this committer
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.

E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
1.4
18 Jul 2002 12:59:19
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dannyboy search for other commits by this committer
USE_REINPLACE.
28 Apr 2001 02:40:27
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dannyboy search for other commits by this committer
Fix stupid mistake.  I swear it worked here.    
19 Apr 2001 03:18:39
commit hash: fp1.12828@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12828@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12828@dev.null.freshports.orgcommit hash: fp1.12828@dev.null.freshports.org files touched by this commit
dannyboy search for other commits by this committer
Fix this port on -current.    
08 Oct 2000 07:23:57
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asami search for other commits by this committer
Convert category sysutils to new layout.  
19 Jul 2000 16:41:50
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dannyboy search for other commits by this committer
Change my address in MAINTAINER.    
21 Jun 2000 16:50:51
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sobomax search for other commits by this committer
Initial import of whowatch - a small program which displays in real time info  
about users currently logged in.    

Number of commits found: 39