Using HP-UX Internet Services (August 2003)

Listing Users with rwho
Using rwho
Chapter 864
Using rwho
For each user logged into a network host, rwho displays an information
line in the following format:
user host . line month day hours : minutes hours : minutes
user Specifies the user’s login name.
host Specifies the host to which the user is logged in. Only
hosts running the rwhod daemon are displayed.
line Specifies the user’s terminal line.
month day Specifies the date the user logged in.
hours : minutes Specifies the time the user logged in (in 24-hour clock
notation).
hours : minutes Specifies 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 one of them have 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 long when a large number of users are logged
into the network.
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.