RWHO(1) AerieBSD 1.0 Refernce Manual RWHO(1)

NAME

rwho — who is logged in on local machines

SYNOPSIS

rwho [-a]

DESCRIPTION

The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on the local network. If no report has been received from a machine for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine.

If a user hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time. If a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the output of rwho unless the -a flag is given.

FILES

/var/rwho/whod.*
information about other machines

SEE ALSO

finger(1), rup(1), ruptime(1), rusers(1), who(1), rwhod(8)

HISTORY

The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD.

BUGS

The rwho protocol only supports up to eight character login names even though OpenBSD supports much longer ones. Long login names will be truncated.

rwho is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large.

AerieBSD 1.0 Reference Manual August 26 2008 RWHO(1)