Using HP-UX Internet Services (August 2003)

Listing Hosts with ruptime

Using ruptime

Chapter 760

Using ruptime

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

format:

hostname

up|down

days

hours

minutes n

users load

n.nn

.nn

hostname

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

displayed for each host on the local network running

the rwhod daemon.

up|down Speciﬁes the status of the host. If the local host stops

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

is considered as down.

days

hours

minutes

Speciﬁes the period of time the host has been up or

down.

users Speciﬁes the number of users logged into the host.

load Speciﬁes 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 in decreasing order.

By default, ruptime lists the number of active users logged into the local

area network. ruptime does not count users who have not used the

system for an hour or more. To include idle users in the status line, use

the -a option speciﬁed as follows:

ruptime -a

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

(SLIP) product.

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