Server Administration for Beginners

[Adnana]

Hi!

I have been searching for a Linux command similar to "who":
I need to ask my server to return a list of all users currently connected to a specified UNIX server (not necessarily the one I'm working on, as with the who command).

Can you help with suggstions?
Thanks a lot.

[daark.child]

Try using "w".

[drl]

Hi.

Users who are connected are logged in, so running:

man -k logged

to look for the keyword logged in the man page descriptions produces:

% man -k logged
last (1)             - show listing of last logged in users
lastb (1)            - show listing of last logged in users
users (1)            - print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host
w (1)                - Show who is logged on and what they are doing.
w.procps (1)         - Show who is logged on and what they are doing.
who (1)

Your system may not have all of these, and not all of the hits will be on target, but learning how to use man -- read man man -- will save you time and trouble. It is one of the most important commands to learn to make one self-sufficient.

With more work, running a Google search with:

man connected linux

would (eventually) lead you to: Linux Newbie Administrator Guide - 6.4 System info and
Linux Newbie Administrator Guide - 6.3 Help commands the main index of which may be very useful ... cheers, drl