logontime(8)

✨ NAME ✨

logontime — the lil tool that shows you how much cumulative logon time each person has racked up, straight out of wtmp 💖 (it's in the hxtools family, section 8, so yes bestie we're in sysadmin territory 👑)

🌸 SYNTAX 🌸

logontime [-t]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕ — logontime goes and peeks at the output of last -ax (which means it depends on /var/log/wtmp being there and being readable, no cap), and then it does the math and calculates the cumulative logon time for each user 🧮✨

so like. every time someone logged in, every time they logged out, all of it gets added up into one big number per person. it's giving "who has been living on this machine" energy 💀

by default it hands you the users sorted alphabetically, because it's polite like that 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -t — sort by logon time instead of alphabetically. so the biggest time-havers go first 🔥 the way that this is literally the only flag… iconic, honestly.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• hxtools(7) — the whole hxtools friend group, go say hi 🫶

quick reminder bestie: this thing reads /var/log/wtmp, so if that file's not there or you can't read it, it's not gonna have a good time 😭

mwah 💋 this one's from the hxtools collection, dated 2008-02-06 — yeah she's an older queen but she still slays, periodt 💖✨🎀