eudev/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
Brandon Philips 4149f86d81 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>
2010-11-05 00:20:28 +01:00

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<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/&lt;program&gt;.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>