| Port details on branch 2026Q1 |
- whowatch Displays information in real time about users currently logged on
- 1.8.6.2 sysutils
=0 1.8.6.2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: jishanalam9128@gmail.com
 - Port Added: 2026-03-07 21:18:07
- Last Update: 2026-03-07 21:14:50
- Commit Hash: e8f735b
- 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.
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- Manual pages:
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- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
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- 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 = 1771524150
SHA256 (Zedai00-whowatch-1.8.6.2_GH0.tar.gz) = b496a0ac8ec1b0fd282cfe3431eee34a0a6275b9fc93d95bb9cdb65f8cd70c39
SIZE (Zedai00-whowatch-1.8.6.2_GH0.tar.gz) = 52538
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- Dependencies
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- Build dependencies:
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- autoconf>=2.72_1 : devel/autoconf
- 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
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