rwho(1)

rwho1

Who is logged in on local machines

Usage

rwho [-a]

Overview

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 has not typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time.

The following option is available:

-a

Include all users. By default, if a user has not typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the output.

Not on Linux.

Files

/var/rwho/whod.*

information about other machines

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 42 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.1.7.1
  2. 2.2.2
  3. 2.2.5–3.0
  4. 3.1–3.5.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 4.1–4.3
  7. 4.4–4.11
  8. 5.0–5.4
  9. 5.5
  10. 6.0–6.3
  11. 6.4
  12. 7.0
  13. 7.1
  14. 7.2
  15. 7.3
  16. 7.4
  17. 8.0
  18. 8.1
  19. 8.2
  20. 8.3
  21. 8.4
  22. 9.0
  23. 9.1
  24. 9.2
  25. 9.3
  26. 10.0
  27. 10.1
  28. 10.2
  29. 10.3
  30. 10.4
  31. 11.0
  32. 11.1
  33. 11.2
  34. 11.3
  35. 11.4
  36. 12.0
  37. 12.1
  38. 12.2
  39. 12.3
  40. 12.4
  41. 13.0–13.2
  42. 13.3–14.5
  43. 15.0–16.0

-a since FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE.

History

The rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD.

Bugs

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

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.