How To Install whowatch on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install whowatch on CentOS 7. whowatch is Display information about users currently logged on

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install whowatch on CentOS 7.

What is whowatch

Whowatch is an interactive who-like program that displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user’s process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. You can toggle display between users’ command or idle time. You can watch processes tree, navigate in it and send INT and KILL signals.

We can use yum or dnf to install whowatch on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install whowatch.

Install whowatch on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install whowatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whowatch

Install whowatch on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install whowatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whowatch

How To Uninstall whowatch on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the whowatch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove whowatch

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install whowatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.