W dniu 7.01.2026 o 16:59, Miroslav Lachman pisze:
On 07/01/2026 10:13, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Does it make sense to patch whowatch to use utmpx/utx on
FreeBSD, even
if this results in a significant, one-time overhaul of the
codebase?
If you can do that, I'd like to try it out.
If you would do that, I suggest to get in touch with upstream and
upstream those patches, and if possible, take over upstream.
Is it more appropriate to leave the port as-is (or mark it
deprecated)
and instead focus effort on adopting or maintaining a different,
more
actively maintained tool?
Yes, this seems more appropriate. The search for a different tool
can become quite burdensome, so it would be very helpful if you did
that.
I used whowatch in the past and really liked it. But it hasn't worked
for me for several years now. I've tried to find an alternative, but
haven't found one, so if anyone knows of one, please share. Or if you
know how to get whowatch working on FreeBSD 14.3.
Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman
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.
Cheers
--
Marek Zarychta
