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