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
<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>
<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>