X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Ftmpfiles.d.xml;h=8776068a115de8e526d5cb5a6707becab1b11707;hp=080da6681bdfcc8294ae05bd09da122549a1c133;hb=ff5d32c875fe5507db2004d3c22fe77cbc7eab0d;hpb=468d726bdd0a383713964dec01fc38ca31256d62 diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index 080da6681..8776068a1 100644 --- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ Copyright 2010 Brandon Philips systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it - under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. + Lesser General Public License for more details. - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with systemd; If not, see . --> @@ -47,47 +47,53 @@ - /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf /run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf + /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf Description - systemd-tmpfiles uses the - configuration files from the above directories to describe the - creation, cleaning and removal of volatile and - temporary files and directories which usually reside - in directories such as /run - or /tmp. + systemd-tmpfiles uses the + configuration files from the above directories to describe the + creation, cleaning and removal of volatile and + temporary files and directories which usually reside + in directories such as /run + or /tmp. - Configuration Format - - Each configuration file is named in the style of - <program>.conf. Files in - /etc/ override files with the - same name in /usr/lib/. Files in - /run override files with the same - name in /etc/ and - /usr/lib/. Packages should - install their configuration files in - /usr/lib/, files in + Configuration Format + + Each configuration file shall be named in the + style of <program>.conf. + Files in /etc/ override files + with the same name in /usr/lib/ + and /run/. Files in + /run/ override files with the same + name in /usr/lib/. Packages + should install their configuration files in + /usr/lib/. Files in /etc/ are reserved for the local - administrator, who may choose to override the - configurations installed from packages. The list of + 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 - configuration file takes precedence over another - configuration file with an alphabetically later - name. + directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific + configuration file takes precedence over another file + with an alphabetically later name - The configuration format is one line per path - containing action, path, mode, ownership, age and argument - fields: + If the administrator wants to disable a + configuration file supplied by the vendor the + recommended way is to place a symlink to + /dev/null in + /etc/tmpfiles.d/ bearing the + same file name. + + The configuration format is one line per path + containing action, path, mode, ownership, age and argument + fields: Type Path Mode UID GID Age Argument d /run/user 0755 root root 10d - @@ -98,12 +104,17 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null f - Create a file if it doesn't exist yet + Create a file if it doesn't exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed) F - Create or truncate a file + Create or truncate a file (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed) + + + + w + Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists. @@ -177,23 +188,28 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null z - Set ownership, access - mode and relabel security context of - a file or directory if it exists. - Lines of this type accept shell-style - globs in place of normal path names. + Restore + SELinux security context label + and set ownership and access + mode of a file or directory if + it exists. Lines of this type + accept shell-style globs in + place of normal path names. Z - Recursively set - ownership, access mode and relabel - security context of 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. + Recursively + restore SELinux security + context label and set + ownership and access mode of 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. @@ -251,6 +267,12 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null The age field only applies to lines starting with d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up is done. + + 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. @@ -260,7 +282,10 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null path of the symlink. For c, b determines the major/minor of the device node, with major and minor formatted as integers, separated by :, - e.g. "1:3". Ignored for all other lines. + e.g. "1:3". For f, F, w may be used to specify + a short string that is written to the file, + suffixed by a newline. Ignored for all other + lines.