Using Internet Services

38 Chapter7
Listing Users with rwho
Using rwho
Using rwho
For each user logged into a network host, rwho displays an information
line with the following format:
user host . line month day hours : minutes hours : minutes
user The user’s login name.
host The host to which the user is logged in. Only hosts
running the rwhod daemon will be displayed.
line The user’s terminal line.
month day The date the user logged in.
hours : minutes The time the user logged in (in 24-hour clock notation).
hours : minutes The amount of time the user has been idle (in 24-hour
clock notation).
With rwho, you can list either of the following:
• Users on network hosts who are active or who have been idle for less
than one hour.
• All users logged into network hosts, regardless of the amount of time
any of them has been idle.
rwho gets its information by broadcasting a query to the local area
network. Only hosts running the rwhod daemon will respond to the
query.
rwho’s list of users can get very long when a large number of users are
logged into network hosts.
NOTE rwho is not supported across X.25 links or networks using the PPL
(SLIP) product.
For more information, type man 1 rwho at the HP-UX prompt.