rwho(1)

rwho1

Who is logged in on local machines

Usage

rwho [-a]

Overview

The rwho command produces output similar to who, 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 users 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/spool/rwho/whod.*

information about other machines

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–2.2
  3. 3.0–13

History

The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD.

Bugs

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

From rwho 0.17-16 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Also shipped by ruptime. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.