RUSERS(1)

💅 RUSERS(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie so this is the rusers page from the General Commands Manual section, and honestly? it's giving "who's online but make it LAN-wide." 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

rusers — who is logged in to machines on local network 👀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rusers [-al] [host ...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so the rusers command is literally just who but with main character energy 💅 — instead of just your own machine, it goes out and asks the list of hosts you gave it, or all the machines on the local network, who's logged in rn.

for every host that responds to the rusers query, it prints the hostname with the names of the users currently logged on, one host per line. iconic.

⏰ heads up: rusers will wait for one minute to catch late responders. yes, a whole minute. she's patient, she's waiting for the stragglers, we respect it. 😭

the following options are available:

• -a — print all machines responding, even if literally nobody is logged in. empty host, still showing up. we love a completionist. 🫶
• -l — print a long format listing. and when we say long, we mean it — this includes the user name, the host name, the 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). it's the full lore dump, no skips. 👑

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

• rusers: RPC: Program not registered the rpc.rusersd(8) daemon has not been started on the remote host. she's not there bestie, the door is locked, nobody's home. 🙈
• 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. it's giving "the wifi is fighting for its life" or "she left the group chat." 😭
• rusers: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out the remote host is not running the portmapper (see portmap(8)), and cannot accomodate any RPC-based services. the host may be down. 💀 fr fr, that machine might just be gone.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

iykyk, the whole RPC friend group. 🫶

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the rusers command appeared in SunOS. a true vintage queen. 👑

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

the sorting options are not implemented. so if you wanted her sorted, bestie... she's not doing that. periodt. 💅

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Linux NetKit (0.17) 🌸 August 15, 1999 🎀

and that's the whole page!! this manual came from Linux NetKit version 0.17, dated August 15, 1999 — yes she's old enough to be your mom's AIM buddy, and she still ate. mwah. 💖✨