- deletes and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
- directories, based on the configuration from
- <filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/</filename>. See
+ deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and
+ directories, based on the configuration file format and
+ location specified in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>If invoked with no arguments, it applies all
+ directives from all configuration files. If one or
+ more filenames are passed on the command line, only
+ the directives in these files are applied. If only
+ the basename of a configuration file is specified,
+ all configuration directories as specified in