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RUPTIME(1) General Commands Manual RUPTIME(1)

ruptimeshow host status of local machines

ruptime [-alrtu]

Ruptime gives a status line like uptime for each machine on the local network; these are formed from packets broadcast by each host on the network once a minute.

Machines for which no status report has been received for 11 minutes are shown as being down.

Options:

Users idle an hour or more are not counted unless the -a flag is given.
Sort by load average.
Reverses the sort order.
Sort by uptime.
Sort by number of users.

The default listing is sorted by host name.

/var/spool/rwho/whod.*
data files

rup(1), rwho(1), uptime(1), rwhod(8)

Ruptime appeared in 4.2BSD.

August 15, 1999 Linux NetKit (0.17)