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| author | Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> | 2010-11-04 16:31:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2010-11-05 00:20:28 +0100 |
| commit | 4149f86d816fc0fef41d35de5beb09bfe81e0d6a (patch) | |
| tree | a588a140ae554c05fdb9694706bb9684f4fa712b /man/tmpfiles.d.xml | |
| parent | 1e85f63615d0b592686fba810157d6b5963b2af9 (diff) | |
man/tmpfiles.d.xml: add a manpage for tmpfiles.d
Initial commit of a tmpfiles.d manpage.
I ran it through xmllint but I don't know how to make it look pretty
like the rest of the xml files. :-P
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
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diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ff53ef76 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<!--*-nxml-*--> +<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> +<!-- + This file is part of systemd. + + 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 + (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. + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +--> +<refentry id="tmpfiles.d"> + + <refentryinfo> + <title>tmpfiles.d</title> + <productname>systemd</productname> + + <authorgroup> + <author> + <contrib>Documentation</contrib> + <firstname>Brandon</firstname> + <surname>Philips</surname> + <email>brandon@ifup.org</email> + </author> + </authorgroup> + </refentryinfo> + + <refmeta> + <refentrytitle>tmpfiles.d</refentrytitle> + <manvolnum>5</manvolnum> + </refmeta> + + <refnamediv> + <refname>tmpfiles.d</refname> + <refpurpose>configuration for creation, deletion and cleaning of tmpfiles</refpurpose> + </refnamediv> + + <refsect1> + <title>Description</title> + + <para><command>systemd</command> uses <filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/</filename> to describe the creation, cleaning and removal of temporary files and directories +which usually reside in <filename>/var/run</filename> or <filename>/tmp</filename>). +Each configuration file is named in the style of +<filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/<program>.conf</filename></para> + + </refsect1> + + <refsect1> + <title>Configuration Format</title> + + <para>The configuration format is one line per path containing +action, mode, ownership and age fields:</para> + + <programlisting>type path mode uid gid age +d /var/run/user 0755 root root 10d +</programlisting> + + <refsect2> + <title>type</title> + <variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>f</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create a file</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>F</varname></term> + <listitem><para>truncate a file</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>d</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create a directory</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>D</varname></term> + <listitem><para>truncate a directory</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>x</varname></term> + <listitem><para>ignore the path</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>r</varname></term> + <listitem><para>remove the path</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>R</varname></term> + <listitem><para>recursively remove the path</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> + </refsect2> + + <refsect2> + <title>age</title> + <para>The date field, when set, is used to decide what files to delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the current time minus the age field it is deleted. The field format is an integer followed by one of the following postfixes:</para> + <variablelist> + <varlistentry><term><varname>sec</varname></term> + <term><varname>s</varname></term> + <term><varname>min</varname></term> + <term><varname>hr</varname></term> + <term><varname>h</varname></term> + <term><varname>d</varname></term> + <term><varname>w</varname></term> + <term><varname>msec</varname></term> + <term><varname>ms</varname></term> + <term><varname>m</varname></term> + <term><varname>usec</varname></term> + <term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry> + </variablelist> + </refsect2> + + + </refsect1> + + <refsect1> + <title>Example</title> + <example> + <title>/etc/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf example</title> + <para><command>screen</command> needs two directories created at boot with specific modes and ownership.</para> + + <programlisting>d /var/run/screens 1777 root root 10d +d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d +</programlisting> + </example> + </refsect1> + + <refsect1> + <title>See Also</title> + <para> + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> + </para> + </refsect1> + +</refentry> |