SYSTEMD-UP...P.SERVICE(8)

💖 systemd-update-utmp.service — SYSTEMD-UP...P.SERVICE(8) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this one is short and sweet but it's lowkey doing important work behind the scenes ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

systemd-update-utmp.service, systemd-update-utmp — the little guy that writes audit and utmp updates at bootup and shutdown 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

systemd-update-utmp.service

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-update-utmp

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. two lines. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so systemd-update-utmp.service is a service — a unit, a little worker bee 🐝 — and what it does is write system reboots and shutdown requests to utmp and wtmp, plus the audit logs too.

basically every time your machine goes "k I'm out 💀" or "ok waking up bestie 🌞", this service is the one jotting it down in the record books so everyone knows what happened and when. no cap. it's giving historian of the boot cycle 👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• systemd(1) — the mothership, the main character
• utmp(5) — where the user accounting tea gets stored
• auditd(8) — the audit crew, they keep receipts 🔥

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🎀 tiny page, big job. don't sleep on it. fr fr.

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and that's the whole thing bestie, you ate it, go forth and understand your boot logs 💜

systemd 262.1 · systemd-update-utmp.service(8) · mwah, xoxo 🦋✨