RWHO(1)

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version 0.17 · 5 versions
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✨ rwho(1) ✨ — the who is logged in girlie, but make it networked 🌐

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for rwho, section 1 of the manual (that's the (1) — commands, iykyk 💅). buckle up, she's short but she's iconic.

🎀 NAME 🎀

rwho — who is logged in on local machines 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rwho [-a]

that's it. one optional flag. she's low maintenance, we love that for her ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so rwho produces output similar to who, except it's doing the absolute most and covering all machines on the local network 🌐 literally a group chat but for logins.

here's the vibe check on how it decides stuff:

  • if no report has been received from a machine for 11 minutes, rwho assumes that machine is down, and it does not report users last known to be logged into that machine 💀 like, ghosted, no cap.
  • if a user hasn't typed to the system for a minute or more, rwho reports this idle time 😴 (we all have that one friend who's been "away" for a minute).
  • if a user hasn't typed to the system for an hour or more, that user gets omitted from the output of rwho — unless the -a flag is given 👀 so yeah, -a is the "show me the lurkers" flag.
fr fr the -a flag is the difference between "who's actually here" and "who's technically still in the call". choose wisely 🙈

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -a — include the quiet girlies too 💅 users who have been idle for an hour or more get shown anyway instead of being omitted.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /var/spool/rwho/whod.* — information about other machines 📂 that's where the tea lives, bestie.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

all the cousins, the whole little family 🧚 honestly a slay lineup 👑

⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the rwho command appeared in 4.3BSD 🌈 vintage. retro. she's been around.

💀 BUGS 💀

this is unwieldy when the number of machines on the local net is large 😭 like, bestie, if your network has a lot of machines, this output gets chaotic. not her fault, she's just honest about it 🫶

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 — this lovely thing is from Linux NetKit, version 0.17, dated August 15, 1999 🎀 go be nosy about who's logged in, ily, bye 🦋👑

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