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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2010-11-10 23:01:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2010-11-10 23:01:20 +0100 |
| commit | aeee2322a66d63e3071b95969a6cbd8ce8dc1053 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a7dd021983f31517657b4b927b85789d88e293a /man/tmpfiles.d.xml | |
| parent | f3b6a3edbce43df47374761529dd663c9a39c612 (diff) | |
man: minor tmpfiles(5) updates and reindenting
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 169 |
1 files changed, 99 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index 5ff53ef76..9a749918e 100644 --- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -48,82 +48,112 @@ <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> - + <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> + <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>mode</title> + + <para>The file access mode to use for this + file or directory. If ommited or when set to - + the default is used: 0755 for directories, + 0644 for files.</para> + </refsect2> + + <refsect2> + <title>uid, gid</title> + + <para>The user and group to use for this file + or directory. This may either be a numeric + user/group ID or a user or group name. If + ommited or when set to - the default 0 is + used.</para> + </refsect2> + + <refsect2> + <title>type</title> + <variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>f</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create a file if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>F</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create or truncate a file</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>d</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create a directory if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>D</varname></term> + <listitem><para>create or empty a directory</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>x</varname></term> + <listitem><para>ignore a path</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>r</varname></term> + <listitem><para>remove a path</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>R</varname></term> + <listitem><para>recursively remove a 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 a series of integers each + followed by one of the following + postfixes for the respective time units:</para> + + <variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>s</varname></term> + <term><varname>min</varname></term> + <term><varname>h</varname></term> + <term><varname>d</varname></term> + <term><varname>w</varname></term> + <term><varname>ms</varname></term> + <term><varname>m</varname></term> + <term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry> + </variablelist> - <varlistentry> - <term><varname>F</varname></term> - <listitem><para>truncate a file</para></listitem> - </varlistentry> + <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time values are summed up.</para> - <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> + <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with d, D and x. If ommited or set to - no automatic clean-up is done.</para> + </refsect2> </refsect1> @@ -134,8 +164,7 @@ d /var/run/user 0755 root root 10d <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> +d /var/run/uscreens 0755 root root 10d12h</programlisting> </example> </refsect1> |