Using Internet Services

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Listing Hosts with ruptime

Using ruptime

For each network host, ruptime displays a status line with the following

format:

hostname

up|down

days

hours

minutes n

users load

n.nn

hostname

The name of a host on the network. One line is

displayed for each host on the local network that is

running the rwhod daemon.

up|down The status of the host. If the local host stops hearing

from a remote host’s rwhod daemon, that host is

considered down.

days

hours

minutes

The length of time the host has been up or down.

users The number of users logged into the host.

load The average number of jobs in the run queue over the

last 5, 10, and 15 minutes.

By default, ruptime displays status lines sorted in alphabetical order by

host name. You can use different command-line options to sort the status

lines by different ﬁelds, in increasing or decreasing order.

By default, ruptime lists the number of active users logged in. ruptime

does not count users who have not used the system for an hour or more.

To include idle users in status lines, use the -a option:

ruptime -a

For more information, type man 1 ruptime at the HP-UX prompt.

NOTE ruptime is not supported across X.25 links or networks using the PPL

(SLIP) product.