#getent
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #getent from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #getent
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 20:50 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 20:50 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-26 20:50 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~29214 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Used together with
Top of the latest posts
#TIL: Making DNS queries with "getent". You know, it’s always DNS … But when working with (minimalist) OCI containers ( #Docker / #Podman) often the regular tools like "ping", "host" or "dig" are not present. Today I learned there’s a binar
@zev @cks One doesn't have to make such an assumption. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getent https://illumos.org/man/8/getent #FreeBSD #Illumos #getent
What “getent” means
Wikipediagetent is a Unix command that helps a user get entries in a number of important text files called databases. This includes the passwd and group databases which store user information – hence getent is a common way to look up user details on Unix. Since getent uses the same name service as the system, getent will show all information, including that gained from network information sources such as LDAP.
“Getent” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#getent across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #getent straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/getent