tmpfiles: support globbing for w option

[elogind.git] / man / tmpfiles.d.xml

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 75d4bcd695796e6f2e13b03d4721a4c161737581..c6325a457bd417fb2469babc695f752d3b50c366 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
                 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>
+                with an alphabetically later name.</para>
 
                 <para>If the administrator wants to disable a
                 configuration file supplied by the vendor the
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
                                         <term><varname>w</varname></term>
-                                        <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists.</para></listitem>
+                                        <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists. Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.</para></listitem>
                                 </varlistentry>
 
                                 <varlistentry>
@@ -267,6 +267,12 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
                         <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
                         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
+                        files and directories one level inside the
+                        directory specified, but not the files and
+                        directories immediately inside it.</para>
                 </refsect2>
 
                 <refsect2>
@@ -299,7 +305,8 @@ d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h</programlisting>
                 <title>See Also</title>
                 <para>
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-delta</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>