NNUSAGE(1M)

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💖 NNUSAGE(1M) 💖

okay bestie, so you found your way into the <pink>nn</pink> manual pages — welcome, come sit with me, because this one is a cutie. this is nnusage, section 1M of the manual, and it's literally here to show you your news-reading stats. yes, like a screen time report but for Usenet. iconic behavior, honestly. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

nnusage — display nn usage statistics 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nnusage [ -at ]

that's it. that's the whole thing. short and slay. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

k so here's the vibe: nnusage will extract the usage entries from the log file and calculate the total usage time for the current user — or, if you pass -a, for all nn users. group stats, bestie. we love a collective moment. 💖

When -t is used together with the -a option, nnusage will list the users ordered after the total usage time. Otherwise — no -t, no ordering-by-time — the output will be sorted according to user names. alphabet girlies, this one's for you. ✨

Now for the genuinely clever part, and I need you to appreciate it: since it is possible to suspend nn, or just straight up leave the terminal while nn is still active, nn tries to be intelligent when it calculates the usage time — so it will truly report the actual time spent on news reading. no inflating your numbers while you went to go get a snack. it knows. it always knows. 👀

📁 FILES 📁

  • .../Log — the log file 📝

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

go read those too, they're all in the family, iykyk. 💜

💀 NOTES 💀

okay this is the section where you need to actually pay attention, bestie, because it's giving fine print energy and it matters:

  • If nn is compiled with ACCOUNTING turned on, then calls to nnusage are converted into equivalent calls to nnacct. plot twist. the pipeline is real. 🔥
  • The nn package must have been compiled with the STATISTICS option turned on to produce the usage entries in the log file. no STATISTICS, no entries, no stats, no slay. 😭
  • Only nn sessions longer than 5 minutes are registered in the log file. so your lil thirty-second peek? not counted. sorry babe. 🙈
fr fr, always double-check those compile-time options before you come crying to nnusage about missing data. it can't give you what was never written down. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark 🌍 E-mail: storm@texas.dk

thank you king, we appreciate the work. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one came to you from the 4th Berkeley Distribution, Release 6.7.5 — go forth and check your reading stats, you main character. mwah. 💖✨🦋

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