rusers question

[rmk at snowhit.att.com]

> We're running SunOS 4.0.3.  We find that the rusers(1) program does not
> terminate.  It sends out a broadcast message, prints out all replies, and
> waits, and waits, ad infinitum (as long as I've bothered to wait, anyway).
> Wouldn't it make sense to have a 15-30 second timeout?  Is this fixed in
> SunOS 4.1?  Thanks.

Just be patient.  On my small network (20 hosts) it takes 2 minutes to time 
out.  If you ask for only certain hosts, rusers -h hosts, it runs faster.

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