WTMPDBD.SERVICE(8)

✨ wtmpdbd.service — the wtmpdb daemon bestie ✨

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for wtmpdbd.service, wtmpdbd.socket and wtmpdbd — the whole little family that runs the daemon controlling your wtmpdb entries 🫶 it's manual section 8, so it's a system/admin type situation, and honestly? iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's the shape of it, verbatim:

wtmpdbd.service

/usr/libexec/wtmpdbd [option...]

not me giving you two separate blocks because that's genuinely how it's laid out 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

wtmpdbd.service is a system service, and its whole job is to let you add and read wtmpdb(8) entries. that's it, that's the gig ✨

the way it works is lowkey main character energy: it gets automatically activated on request, and then it terminates itself when unused. so it shows up when needed, does the thing, and dips. no lingering. we love a self-aware queen 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's the full menu, no skips, no cuts:

• -s, --socket — activation through socket, fr fr 🔌
• -d, --debug — debug mode, for when you wanna see everything 👀
• -v, --verbose — verbose logging, aka it will talk to you 🗣️
• -h, --help — displays the help message and then exits, your classic escape hatch 🚪
• -v, --version — prints the version number and exits 🏷️

and yes bestie, -v genuinely shows up twice in this list — once for --verbose and once for --version. that's exactly what the page says, i'm not out here inventing flags, i am simply reporting the lore 💀

🦋 FILES 🦋

the two paths you need to know about:

• /run/wtmpdb/socket — the Varlink socket used for communication 📡
• /var/lib/wtmpdb/wtmp.db — the wtmpdb logging database file 🗄️

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at wtmpdb(8), too — that's the cross-reference and yes there's a trailing comma up there, i'm keeping it exactly as written, character for character, periodt 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

wtmpdb was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>. thank you for your service, king 🫶✨

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie 💖 this page is from wtmpdb version 0.74.0, dated 05/09/2025 — go forth and log your wtmp entries, you've got this 🧚🌸