man: systemd-tmpfiles - document proper config-file-stack order

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

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index f70bf0ef9f712257d367fd2793127fd60f156804..8987c48073e41a2acbf5e4fec2181470d5a2c9af 100644 (file)
--- 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 <refentry id="tmpfiles.d">
@@ -66,24 +66,30 @@
         <refsect1>
                <title>Configuration Format</title>
 
-                <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
-                <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.  Files in
-                <filename>/etc/</filename> override files with the
-                same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.  Files in
-                <filename>/run</filename> override files with the same
-                name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
-                <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should
-                install their configuration files in
-                <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files in
+                <para>Each configuration file shall be named in the
+                style of <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
+                Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> override files
+                with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>
+                and <filename>/run/</filename>.  Files in
+                <filename>/run/</filename> override files with the same
+                name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages
+                should install their configuration files in
+                <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Files in
                 <filename>/etc/</filename> 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.</para>
+                directories they reside, to guarantee that a specific
+                configuration file takes precedence over another file
+                with an alphabetically later name</para>
+
+                <para>If the administrator wants to disable a
+                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>
 
                <para>The configuration format is one line per path
                containing action, path, mode, ownership, age and argument