+ <para>The configuration format is one line per path
+ containing action, mode, ownership and age
+ fields:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>Type Path Mode UID GID Age
+d /var/run/user 0755 root root 10d</programlisting>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Type</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>f</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>F</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>d</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>D</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Create or empty a directory</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>x</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Ignore a path
+ during cleaning. Use this type
+ to exclude paths from clean-up
+ as controlled with the Age
+ parameter. Note that lines of
+ this type do not influence the
+ effect of r or R lines. Lines
+ of this type accept
+ shell-style globs in place of
+ of normal path
+ names.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>r</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Remove a file
+ or directory if it
+ exists. This may not be used
+ to remove non-empty
+ directories, use R for
+ that. Lines of this type
+ accept shell-style globs in
+ place of normal path
+ names.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>R</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Recursively
+ remove a path and all its
+ subdirectories (if it is a
+ directory). Lines of this type
+ accept shell-style globs in
+ place of normal path
+ names.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Mode</title>
+
+ <para>The file access mode to use when
+ creating this file or directory. If omitted or
+ when set to - the default is used: 0755 for
+ directories, 0644 for files. This parameter is
+ ignored for x, r, R lines.</para>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>UID, GID</title>
+
+ <para>The user and group to use for this file
+ or directory. This may either be a numeric
+ user/group ID or a user or group name. If
+ omitted or when set to - the default 0 (root)
+ is used. . These parameters are ignored for x,
+ r, R lines.</para>
+ </refsect2>
+
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Age</title>
+ <para>The date field, when set, is used to
+ decide what files to delete when cleaning. If
+ a file or directory is older than the current
+ time minus the age field it is deleted. The
+ field format is a series of integers each
+ followed by one of the following
+ postfixes for the respective time units:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>s</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>min</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>h</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>d</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>w</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>ms</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>m</varname></term>
+ <term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>