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NAME
rwho - show who is logged in on local machines
SYNOPSIS
rwho [-a]
DESCRIPTION
rwho produces output similar to the output of the
HP-UX who command for all machines on the local
network that are running the
rwho daemon (see who(1) and rwhod (1M)). If
rwhod has not received a
report from a machine for 11 minutes,
rwho
assumes the machine is down and rwho does not report
users last known to be logged into that machine.
rwho’s output line has fields for the name of the user, the name of the machine, the user’s terminal line,
the time the user logged in, and the amount of time the user has been idle. Idle time is shown as:
hours
:minutes
If a user has not typed to the system for a minute or more,
rwho reports this as idle time. If a user has
not typed to the system for an hour or more, the user is omitted from
rwho’s output unless the -a flag is
given.
An example output line from
rwho would look similar to:
joe_user machine1:tty0p1 Sep 12 13:28 :11
This output line could be interpreted as joe_user is logged into machine1 and his terminal line is
tty0p1. joe_user has been logged on since September 12 at 13:28 (1:28 p.m.). joe_user has
not typed anything into machine1 for 11 minutes.
WARNINGS
rwho’s output becomes unwieldy when the number of users for each machine on the local network run-
ning rwhod becomes large. One line of output occurs for each user on each machine on the local net-
work that is running rwhod.
AUTHOR
rwho was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/var/spool/rwho/whod.*
Information about other machines.
SEE ALSO
ruptime(1), rusers(1), rwhod(1M).
HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1