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8.Dd
9.Dt RWHO 1
10.Os BSD 4.2
11.Sh NAME
12.Nm rwho
13.Nd who is logged in on local machines
14.Sh SYNOPSIS
15.Nm rwho
16.Op Fl a
17.Sh DESCRIPTION
18The
19.Nm rwho
20command produces output similar to
21.Xr who ,
22but for all machines on the local network.
23If no report has been
24received from a machine for 5 minutes then
25.Nm rwho
26assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known
27to be logged into that machine.
28.Pp
29If a users hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, then
30.Nm rwho
31reports this idle time.  If a user hasn't typed to the system for
32an hour or more, then
33the user will be omitted from the output of
34.Nm rwho
35unless the
36.Fl a
37flag is given.
38.Sh FILES
39.Bl -tag -width /var/spool/rwho/rhowd.* -compact
40.It Pa /var/spool/rwho/whod.*
41information about other machines
42.El
43.Sh SEE ALSO
44.Xr ruptime 1 ,
45.Xr rwhod 8
46.Sh HISTORY
47The
48.Nm rwho
49command
50appeared in
51.Bx 4.3 .
52.Sh BUGS
53This is unwieldy when the number of machines
54on the local net is large.
55