rwho(1)                                                      rwho(1)


       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.

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

       USAGE
             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.

          Warnings
             rwho does not work through gateways.

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

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

             For rwho to work properly, the directory /var/spool/rwho must
             be created by the system administrator.  Given the adverse
             effect rwho can have on system and network performance, the
             system administrator must decide whether the benefits of the
             rwho feature are worth the performance cost.

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




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