The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on the local network. If no report has been received from a machine for 11 minutes then rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine.

If a user has not typed to the system for a minute or more, then rwho reports this idle time.

The following option is available:

• -a Include all users. By default, if a user has not typed to the system for an hour or more, then the user will be omitted from the output.

• /var/rwho/whod.* information about other machines

ruptime(1), who(1), rwhod(8)

The rwho command appeared in

This is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large.