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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition

by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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runlevel
runlevel [utmp]
System administration command. Display the previous and current
system runlevels as reported in the utmp file. The default utmp file
is /var/run/utmp. See init for a summary of runlevels.
rup
rup [options] [hosts]
TCP/IP command. Query statd for system status on RPC hosts:
current time, uptime, and load averages (the average number of
jobs in the run queue).
Options
-d Report local time on each host.
-h Sort information by hostname.
-l Sort information by load average.
-s Print times in seconds. Useful for scripts.
-t Sort information by uptime.
ruptime
ruptime [options]
TCP/IP command. Provide information on how long each machine
on the local network has been up and which users are logged into
each. If a machine has not reported in for 11 minutes, assume it is
down. The listing is sorted by hostname. ruptime depends on
rwhod.
Options
-a Include users who have been idle for more than one hour.
-l Sort machines by load average.
-r Reverse the normal sort order.
-t Sort machines by uptime.
-u Sort machines by the number of users logged in.
rusers
rusers [options] [host]
TCP/IP command.
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