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22 <refentry id="tmpfiles.d">
23
24         <refentryinfo>
25                 <title>tmpfiles.d</title>
26                 <productname>systemd</productname>
27
28                 <authorgroup>
29                         <author>
30                                 <contrib>Documentation</contrib>
31                                 <firstname>Brandon</firstname>
32                                 <surname>Philips</surname>
33                                 <email>brandon@ifup.org</email>
34                         </author>
35                 </authorgroup>
36         </refentryinfo>
37
38         <refmeta>
39                 <refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle>
40                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
41         </refmeta>
42
43         <refnamediv>
44                 <refname>tmpfiles.d</refname>
45                 <refpurpose>Configuration for creation, deletion and
46                 cleaning of volatile and temporary files</refpurpose>
47         </refnamediv>
48
49         <refsynopsisdiv>
50                 <para><filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
51                 <para><filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
52                 <para><filename>/run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
53         </refsynopsisdiv>
54
55         <refsect1>
56                 <title>Description</title>
57
58                 <para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> uses the
59                 configuration files from the above directories to describe the
60                 creation, cleaning and removal of volatile and
61                 temporary files and directories which usually reside
62                 in directories such as <filename>/run</filename>
63                 or <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para>
64         </refsect1>
65
66         <refsect1>
67                 <title>Configuration Format</title>
68
69                 <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
70                 <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
71                 Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
72                 files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
73                 Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
74                 the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
75                 <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should install their
76                 configuration files in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files
77                 in <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
78                 administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
79                 configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
80                 by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
81                 directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
82                 configuration file takes precedence over another file with
83                 an alphabetically later name.</para>
84
85                 <para>The configuration format is one line per path
86                 containing action, mode, ownership and age
87                 fields:</para>
88
89                 <programlisting>Type Path          Mode UID  GID  Age
90 d    /run/user 0755 root root 10d</programlisting>
91
92                 <refsect2>
93                         <title>Type</title>
94                         <variablelist>
95                                 <varlistentry>
96                                         <term><varname>f</varname></term>
97                                         <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
98                                 </varlistentry>
99
100                                 <varlistentry>
101                                         <term><varname>F</varname></term>
102                                         <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file</para></listitem>
103                                 </varlistentry>
104
105                                 <varlistentry>
106                                         <term><varname>d</varname></term>
107                                         <listitem><para>Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
108                                 </varlistentry>
109
110                                 <varlistentry>
111                                         <term><varname>D</varname></term>
112                                         <listitem><para>Create or empty a directory</para></listitem>
113                                 </varlistentry>
114
115                                 <varlistentry>
116                                         <term><varname>p</varname></term>
117                                         <listitem><para>Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
118                                 </varlistentry>
119
120                                 <varlistentry>
121                                         <term><varname>x</varname></term>
122                                         <listitem><para>Ignore a path
123                                         during cleaning. Use this type
124                                         to exclude paths from clean-up
125                                         as controlled with the Age
126                                         parameter. Note that lines of
127                                         this type do not influence the
128                                         effect of r or R lines. Lines
129                                         of this type accept
130                                         shell-style globs in place of
131                                         of normal path
132                                         names.</para></listitem>
133                                 </varlistentry>
134
135                                 <varlistentry>
136                                         <term><varname>r</varname></term>
137                                         <listitem><para>Remove a file
138                                         or directory if it
139                                         exists. This may not be used
140                                         to remove non-empty
141                                         directories, use R for
142                                         that. Lines of this type
143                                         accept shell-style globs in
144                                         place of normal path
145                                         names.</para></listitem>
146                                 </varlistentry>
147
148                                 <varlistentry>
149                                         <term><varname>R</varname></term>
150                                         <listitem><para>Recursively
151                                         remove a path and all its
152                                         subdirectories (if it is a
153                                         directory). Lines of this type
154                                         accept shell-style globs in
155                                         place of normal path
156                                         names.</para></listitem>
157                                 </varlistentry>
158                         </variablelist>
159                 </refsect2>
160
161                 <refsect2>
162                         <title>Mode</title>
163
164                         <para>The file access mode to use when
165                         creating this file or directory. If omitted or
166                         when set to - the default is used: 0755 for
167                         directories, 0644 for files. This parameter is
168                         ignored for x, r, R lines.</para>
169                 </refsect2>
170
171                 <refsect2>
172                         <title>UID, GID</title>
173
174                         <para>The user and group to use for this file
175                         or directory. This may either be a numeric
176                         user/group ID or a user or group name. If
177                         omitted or when set to - the default 0 (root)
178                         is used. . These parameters are ignored for x,
179                         r, R lines.</para>
180                 </refsect2>
181
182                 <refsect2>
183                         <title>Age</title>
184                         <para>The date field, when set, is used to
185                         decide what files to delete when cleaning. If
186                         a file or directory is older than the current
187                         time minus the age field it is deleted. The
188                         field format is a series of integers each
189                         followed by one of the following
190                         postfixes for the respective time units:</para>
191
192                         <variablelist>
193                                 <varlistentry>
194                                 <term><varname>s</varname></term>
195                                 <term><varname>min</varname></term>
196                                 <term><varname>h</varname></term>
197                                 <term><varname>d</varname></term>
198                                 <term><varname>w</varname></term>
199                                 <term><varname>ms</varname></term>
200                                 <term><varname>m</varname></term>
201                                 <term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
202                         </variablelist>
203
204                         <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time
205                         values are summed up.</para>
206
207                         <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
208                         d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up
209                         is done.</para>
210                 </refsect2>
211
212         </refsect1>
213
214         <refsect1>
215                 <title>Example</title>
216                 <example>
217                         <title>/etc/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf example</title>
218                         <para><command>screen</command> needs two directories created at boot with specific modes and ownership.</para>
219
220                         <programlisting>d /var/run/screens 1777 root root 10d
221 d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h</programlisting>
222                 </example>
223         </refsect1>
224
225         <refsect1>
226                 <title>See Also</title>
227                 <para>
228                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
229                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
230                 </para>
231         </refsect1>
232
233 </refentry>