NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     rusers - who is logged in to machines on local network

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     rusers [-al] [-h | -i | -u] [hosts ...]

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The rusers command produces output similar  to  who(1),  but
for the list of
     hosts  or  all machines on the local network.  For each host
responding to
     the rusers query, the hostname with the names of  the  users
currently
     logged  on is printed on each line.  The rusers command will
wait for 30
     seconds to catch late responders.

     The options are as follows:

     -a      Print all machines responding even if no one is currently logged
             in.

     -h      Sort alphabetically by hostname.

     -i       Sort by idle time in ascending order.  Unlike other
implementations,
 when the -i and -l flags are mixed the output
is sorted by
             the  idle  time  of each individual user.  If the -l
flag is not
             specified, the idle time for a machine is considered
to be the
             lowest idle time of a user on that host.

     -l      Print a long format listing.  This includes the user
name, host
             name, tty that the user is logged in  to,  the  date
and time the
             user  logged  in,  the amount of time since the user
typed on the
             keyboard, and the remote host they  logged  in  from
(if applicable).


     -u      Sort by number of users logged in.

DIAGNOSTICS    [Toc]    [Back]

     rusers: RPC: Program not registered
             The  rpc.rusersd(8)  daemon  has not been started on
the remote
             host.

     rusers: RPC: Timed out
             A communication error occurred.  Either the  network
is excessively
  congested, or the rpc.rusersd(8) daemon has terminated on the
             remote host.

     rusers: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out
             The remote host is not running the  portmapper  (see
portmap(8)),
             and  cannot accommodate any RPC-based services.  The
host may be
             down.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     rwho(1), users(1), who(1), portmap(8), rpc.rusersd(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The rusers command appeared in SunOS.

OpenBSD     3.6                          April      23,      1991