d /run/user 0755 root root 10d -
L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting>
+ <para>Fields may be enclosed within quotes and contain C-style escapes.</para>
+
<refsect2>
<title>Type</title>
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>h</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Set file/directory attributes. Lines of this type
+ accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.</para>
+
+ <para>The format of the argument field is <varname>[+-=][aAcCdDeijsStTu]
+ </varname></para>
+
+ <para>The prefix <varname>+</varname> (the default one) causes the
+ attribute(s) to be added; <varname>-</varname> causes the
+ attribute(s) to be removed; <varname>=</varname>
+ causes the attributes to set exactly as the following letters.</para>
+ <para>The letters <literal>aAcCdDeijsStTu</literal> select the new
+ attributes for the files, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chattr</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> for further information.
+ </para>
+ <para>Passing only <varname>=</varname> as argument,
+ resets all the file attributes listed above. It has to be pointed
+ out that the <varname>=</varname> prefix, limits itself to the
+ attributes corresponding to the letters listed here. All other
+ attributes will be left untouched.
+ </para>
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>H</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>Recursively set file/directory attributes. Lines
+ of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal
+ path names.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>a</varname></term>
<term><varname>a+</varname></term>
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>
+ following postfixes for the respective time units:
+ <constant>s</constant>,
+ <constant>m</constant> or <constant>min</constant>,
+ <constant>h</constant>,
+ <constant>d</constant>,
+ <constant>w</constant>,
+ <constant>ms</constant>,
+ <constant>us</constant>,
+ respectively meaning seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
+ milliseconds, and microseconds. Full names of the time units can
+ be used too.
+ </para>
<para>If multiple integers and units are specified, the time
- values are summed up. If an integer is given without a unit,
- <varname>s</varname> is assumed.
+ values are summed. If an integer is given without a unit,
+ <constant>s</constant> is assumed.
</para>
<para>When the age is set to zero, the files are cleaned
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getfattr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>setfattr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>setfacl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getfacl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>getfacl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>chattr</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>