<title>Configuration Format</title>
<para>Each configuration file shall be named in the
- style of <filename><program>.conf</filename>.
+ style of <filename><package>.conf</filename>.
Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> override files
with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>
and <filename>/run/</filename>. Files in
administrator, who may use this logic to override the
configuration files installed by vendor packages. All
configuration files are sorted by their filename in
- alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
- directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
- configuration file takes precedence over another file
- with an alphabetically later name.</para>
+ lexicographic order, regardless in which of the
+ directories they reside. If multiple files specify the
+ same path, the entry in the file with the lexicographically
+ earliest name will be applied, all all other conflicting
+ entries logged as errors.</para>
<para>If the administrator wants to disable a
- configuration file supplied by the vendor the
+ configuration file supplied by the vendor, the
recommended way is to place a symlink to
<filename>/dev/null</filename> in
<filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/</filename> bearing the
- same file name.</para>
+ same filename.</para>
<para>The configuration format is one line per path
containing action, path, mode, ownership, age and argument
d /run/user 0755 root root 10d -
L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting>
+
<refsect2>
<title>Type</title>
+
+ <para>The following line types are understood:</para>
+
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>f</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a file if it does not exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>d</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a directory if it does not exist yet</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>p</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it does not exist yet</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>L</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a symlink if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a symlink if it does not exist yet</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>c</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a character device node if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a character device node if it does not exist yet</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>b</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Create a block device node if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Create a block device node if it does not exist yet</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>m</varname></term>
+ <listitem><para>If the
+ specified file path exists,
+ adjust its access mode, group
+ and user to the specified
+ values and reset the SELinux
+ label. If it does not exist, do
+ nothing.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>X</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Ignore a path
- during cleanup. Use this type
- to prevent path removal as
- controlled with the Age parameter.
- Note that if path is a directory,
- content of a directory is not
- excluded from clean-up, only
- directory itself. Lines of this
- type accept shell-style globs
- in place of normal path
+ during cleaning. Use this type
+ to exclude paths from clean-up
+ as controlled with the Age
+ parameter. Unlike x, this
+ parameter will not exclude the
+ content if path is a directory,
+ but only directory itself.
+ 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 normal path
names.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Path</title>
+
+ <para>The file system path specification supports simple specifier
+ expansion. The following expansions are
+ understood:</para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>Specifiers available</title>
+ <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
+ <colspec colname="spec" />
+ <colspec colname="mean" />
+ <colspec colname="detail" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Specifier</entry>
+ <entry>Meaning</entry>
+ <entry>Details</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%m</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Machine ID</entry>
+ <entry>The machine ID of the running system, formatted as string. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%b</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Boot ID</entry>
+ <entry>The boot ID of the running system, formatted as string. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>random</refentrytitle><manvolnum>4</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%H</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Host name</entry>
+ <entry>The hostname of the running system.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%v</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Kernel release</entry>
+ <entry>Identical to <command>uname -r</command> output.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><literal>%%</literal></entry>
+ <entry>Escaped %</entry>
+ <entry>Single percent sign.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+ </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
+ when set to -, the default is used: 0755 for
directories, 0644 for all other file
- objects. For z, Z lines if omitted or when set
- to - the file access mode will not be
+ objects. For z, Z lines, if omitted or when set
+ to -, the file access mode will not be
modified. This parameter is ignored for x, r,
R, L lines.</para>
</refsect2>
<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. For z, Z lines when omitted or when set to -
+ omitted or when set to -, the default 0 (root)
+ is used. For z, Z lines, when omitted or when set to -,
the file ownership will not be modified.
These parameters are ignored for x, r, R, L lines.</para>
</refsect2>
<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
+ 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>
<term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time
+ <para>If multiple integers and units are specified, the time
values are summed up. If an integer is given without a unit,
s is assumed.
</para>
unconditionally.</para>
<para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
- d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up
+ d, D and x. If omitted or set to -, no automatic clean-up
is done.</para>
<para>If the age field starts with a tilde
- character (~) the clean-up is only applied to
+ character (~), the clean-up is only applied to
files and directories one level inside the
directory specified, but not the files and
directories immediately inside it.</para>
<programlisting>d /var/run/screens 1777 root root 10d
d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h</programlisting>
</example>
+ <example>
+ <title>/etc/tmpfiles.d/abrt.conf example</title>
+ <para><command>abrt</command> needs a directory created at boot with specific mode and ownership and its content should be preserved.</para>
+
+ <programlisting>d /var/tmp/abrt 0755 abrt abrt
+x /var/tmp/abrt/*</programlisting>
+ </example>
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