System Administration Guide

Example--Finding Who Is Logged In to a Remote System

The following example shows the short output of rusers.


$ rusers pluto
pluto    smith  jones

In the following example, the long version of rusers show that two users are logged in to the remote system named pluto. The first user logged in from the system console on November 18 and has been logged on for 4 hours and 10 minutes. The second user logged in from a remote system, mars, on the same date, and has been logged on for a similar amount of time.


$ rusers -l pluto
smith     pluto:console       Nov 18 09:19     4:10
jones     mars:console        Nov 18 09:20     4:11   (mars)