NAME

rwho − who’s logged in on local machines

SYNOPSIS

rwho [ −a ]

DESCRIPTION

The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on your network.  If no report has been received from a machine for 5 minutes, rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine. 

If a user has not typed to the system for a minute or more, rwho reports this idle time.  If a user has not typed to the system for an hour or more, the user is omitted from the output of rwho unless the −a flag is given. 

The −a option reports all users whether or not they have typed to the system in the past hour. 

FILES

/var/spool/rwho/whod.∗ information about other machines

SEE ALSO

finger(1), ruptime(1), who(1), rwhod(1M)

NOTES

Does not work through gateways. 

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

The rwho service daemon, rwhod(1M), must be enabled for this command to return useful results. 

Rwho shows users on a remote machine only if rwhod(1M) is running on both the local machine and the remote machine and the remote machine has been up long enough to generate its first rwho broadcast. 

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