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  22 <refentry id="tmpfiles.d">
  23
  24         <refentryinfo>
  25                 <title>tmpfiles.d</title>
  26                 <productname>systemd</productname>
  27
  28                 <authorgroup>
  29                         <author>
  30                                 <contrib>Documentation</contrib>
  31                                 <firstname>Brandon</firstname>
  32                                 <surname>Philips</surname>
  33                                 <email>brandon@ifup.org</email>
  34                         </author>
  35                 </authorgroup>
  36         </refentryinfo>
  37
  38         <refmeta>
  39                 <refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle>
  40                 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
  41         </refmeta>
  42
  43         <refnamediv>
  44                 <refname>tmpfiles.d</refname>
  45                 <refpurpose>Configuration for creation, deletion and
  46                 cleaning of volatile and temporary files</refpurpose>
  47         </refnamediv>
  48
  49         <refsynopsisdiv>
  50                 <para><filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
  51                 <para><filename>/run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
  52                 <para><filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
  53         </refsynopsisdiv>
  54
  55         <refsect1>
  56                 <title>Description</title>
  57
  58                 <para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> uses the
  59                 configuration files from the above directories to describe the
  60                 creation, cleaning and removal of volatile and
  61                 temporary files and directories which usually reside
  62                 in directories such as <filename>/run</filename>
  63                 or <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para>
  64         </refsect1>
  65
  66         <refsect1>
  67                 <title>Configuration Format</title>
  68
  69                 <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
  70                 <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.  Files in
  71                 <filename>/etc/</filename> override files with the
  72                 same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.  Files in
  73                 <filename>/run</filename> override files with the same
  74                 name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
  75                 <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should
  76                 install their configuration files in
  77                 <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files in
  78                 <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
  79                 administrator, who may choose to override the
  80                 configurations installed from packages. The list of
  81                 configuration files are sorted by their filename in
  82                 alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
  83                 directories they reside, to guarantee that a
  84                 configuration file takes precedence over another
  85                 configuration file with an alphabetically later
  86                 name.</para>
  87
  88                 <para>The configuration format is one line per path
  89                 containing action, path, mode, ownership, age and argument
  90                 fields:</para>
  91
  92                 <programlisting>Type Path        Mode UID  GID  Age Argument
  93 d    /run/user   0755 root root 10d -
  94 L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
  95
  96                 <refsect2>
  97                         <title>Type</title>
  98                         <variablelist>
  99                                 <varlistentry>
 100                                         <term><varname>f</varname></term>
 101                                         <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>
 102                                 </varlistentry>
 103
 104                                 <varlistentry>
 105                                         <term><varname>F</varname></term>
 106                                         <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem>
 107                                 </varlistentry>
 108
 109                                 <varlistentry>
 110                                         <term><varname>w</varname></term>
 111                                         <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists.</para></listitem>
 112                                 </varlistentry>
 113
 114                                 <varlistentry>
 115                                         <term><varname>d</varname></term>
 116                                         <listitem><para>Create a directory if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
 117                                 </varlistentry>
 118
 119                                 <varlistentry>
 120                                         <term><varname>D</varname></term>
 121                                         <listitem><para>Create or empty a directory</para></listitem>
 122                                 </varlistentry>
 123
 124                                 <varlistentry>
 125                                         <term><varname>p</varname></term>
 126                                         <listitem><para>Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
 127                                 </varlistentry>
 128
 129                                 <varlistentry>
 130                                         <term><varname>L</varname></term>
 131                                         <listitem><para>Create a symlink if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
 132                                 </varlistentry>
 133
 134                                 <varlistentry>
 135                                         <term><varname>c</varname></term>
 136                                         <listitem><para>Create a character device node if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
 137                                 </varlistentry>
 138
 139                                 <varlistentry>
 140                                         <term><varname>b</varname></term>
 141                                         <listitem><para>Create a block device node if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem>
 142                                 </varlistentry>
 143
 144                                 <varlistentry>
 145                                         <term><varname>x</varname></term>
 146                                         <listitem><para>Ignore a path
 147                                         during cleaning. Use this type
 148                                         to exclude paths from clean-up
 149                                         as controlled with the Age
 150                                         parameter. Note that lines of
 151                                         this type do not influence the
 152                                         effect of r or R lines. Lines
 153                                         of this type accept
 154                                         shell-style globs in place of
 155                                         of normal path
 156                                         names.</para></listitem>
 157                                 </varlistentry>
 158
 159                                 <varlistentry>
 160                                         <term><varname>r</varname></term>
 161                                         <listitem><para>Remove a file
 162                                         or directory if it
 163                                         exists. This may not be used
 164                                         to remove non-empty
 165                                         directories, use R for
 166                                         that. Lines of this type
 167                                         accept shell-style globs in
 168                                         place of normal path
 169                                         names.</para></listitem>
 170                                 </varlistentry>
 171
 172                                 <varlistentry>
 173                                         <term><varname>R</varname></term>
 174                                         <listitem><para>Recursively
 175                                         remove a path and all its
 176                                         subdirectories (if it is a
 177                                         directory). Lines of this type
 178                                         accept shell-style globs in
 179                                         place of normal path
 180                                         names.</para></listitem>
 181                                 </varlistentry>
 182
 183                                 <varlistentry>
 184                                         <term><varname>z</varname></term>
 185                                         <listitem><para>Restore
 186                                         SELinux security context label
 187                                         and set ownership and access
 188                                         mode of a file or directory if
 189                                         it exists.  Lines of this type
 190                                         accept shell-style globs in
 191                                         place of normal path names.
 192                                         </para></listitem>
 193                                 </varlistentry>
 194
 195                                 <varlistentry>
 196                                         <term><varname>Z</varname></term>
 197                                         <listitem><para>Recursively
 198                                         restore SELinux security
 199                                         context label and set
 200                                         ownership and access mode of a
 201                                         path and all its
 202                                         subdirectories (if it is a
 203                                         directory). Lines of this type
 204                                         accept shell-style globs in
 205                                         place of normal path
 206                                         names.</para></listitem>
 207                                 </varlistentry>
 208                         </variablelist>
 209                 </refsect2>
 210
 211                 <refsect2>
 212                         <title>Mode</title>
 213
 214                         <para>The file access mode to use when
 215                         creating this file or directory. If omitted or
 216                         when set to - the default is used: 0755 for
 217                         directories, 0644 for all other file
 218                         objects. For z, Z lines if omitted or when set
 219                         to - the file access mode will not be
 220                         modified. This parameter is ignored for x, r,
 221                         R, L lines.</para>
 222                 </refsect2>
 223
 224                 <refsect2>
 225                         <title>UID, GID</title>
 226
 227                         <para>The user and group to use for this file
 228                         or directory. This may either be a numeric
 229                         user/group ID or a user or group name. If
 230                         omitted or when set to - the default 0 (root)
 231                         is used. For z, Z lines when omitted or when set to -
 232                         the file ownership will not be modified.
 233                         These parameters are ignored for x, r, R, L lines.</para>
 234                 </refsect2>
 235
 236                 <refsect2>
 237                         <title>Age</title>
 238                         <para>The date field, when set, is used to
 239                         decide what files to delete when cleaning. If
 240                         a file or directory is older than the current
 241                         time minus the age field it is deleted. The
 242                         field format is a series of integers each
 243                         followed by one of the following
 244                         postfixes for the respective time units:</para>
 245
 246                         <variablelist>
 247                                 <varlistentry>
 248                                 <term><varname>s</varname></term>
 249                                 <term><varname>min</varname></term>
 250                                 <term><varname>h</varname></term>
 251                                 <term><varname>d</varname></term>
 252                                 <term><varname>w</varname></term>
 253                                 <term><varname>ms</varname></term>
 254                                 <term><varname>m</varname></term>
 255                                 <term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
 256                         </variablelist>
 257
 258                         <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time
 259                         values are summed up.</para>
 260
 261                         <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
 262                         d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up
 263                         is done.</para>
 264                 </refsect2>
 265
 266                 <refsect2>
 267                         <title>Argument</title>
 268
 269                         <para>For L lines determines the destination
 270                         path of the symlink. For c, b determines the
 271                         major/minor of the device node, with major and
 272                         minor formatted as integers, separated by :,
 273                         e.g. "1:3". For f, F, w may be used to specify
 274                         a short string that is written to the file,
 275                         suffixed by a newline. Ignored for all other
 276                         lines.</para>
 277                 </refsect2>
 278
 279         </refsect1>
 280
 281         <refsect1>
 282                 <title>Example</title>
 283                 <example>
 284                         <title>/etc/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf example</title>
 285                         <para><command>screen</command> needs two directories created at boot with specific modes and ownership.</para>
 286
 287                         <programlisting>d /var/run/screens  1777 root root 10d
 288 d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h</programlisting>
 289                 </example>
 290         </refsect1>
 291
 292         <refsect1>
 293                 <title>See Also</title>
 294                 <para>
 295                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 296                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 297                 </para>
 298         </refsect1>
 299
 300 </refentry>