1.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd November 3, 2013 26.Dt UTX 8 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm utx 30.Nd manage the user accounting database 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Nm 33.Cm boot 34.Nm 35.Cm shutdown 36.Nm 37.Cm rm 38.Ar identifier 39.Ar ... 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43utility can be used to perform operations on the user accounting 44database, as done by 45.Xr pututxline 3 . 46.Pp 47The first argument to 48.Nm 49indicates an action to be performed: 50.Bl -tag -width ".Cm shutdown" 51.It Cm boot 52Write a boot time record to the user accounting database. 53This option should typically only be used by 54.Xr rc 8 . 55.It Cm shutdown 56Write a shutdown time record to the user accounting database. 57This option should typically only be used by 58.Xr rc 8 . 59.It Cm rm 60Remove stale sessions from the user accounting 61database, by referring to their 62.Ar identifier . 63Stale sessions can occur if a login service exits prematurely or fails 64to remove the session from the accounting database. 65.Pp 66Utilities such as 67.Xr w 1 68will not display the identifier corresponding with a login session, 69since its value is typically only of use by the process managing the 70record. 71The following command can be used to obtain all records from the user 72accounting database's active session table, including its identifiers: 73.Pp 74.Dl getent utmpx active 75.Pp 76Identifiers can either be supplied in hexadecimal form as displayed by 77.Xr getent 1 , 78or as a string if the identifier allows such a representation. 79.El 80.Pp 81Because this utility requires write-access to the user accounting 82database, its use is limited to the super-user. 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr getent 1 , 85.Xr w 1 , 86.Xr pututxline 3 87.Sh HISTORY 88The 89.Nm 90utility replaced 91.Nm utxrm 92in 93.Fx 10.0 . 94.Sh AUTHORS 95.An Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org 96