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authorBrandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>2010-11-04 16:31:07 -0400
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2010-11-05 00:20:28 +0100
commit4149f86d816fc0fef41d35de5beb09bfe81e0d6a (patch)
treea588a140ae554c05fdb9694706bb9684f4fa712b
parent1e85f63615d0b592686fba810157d6b5963b2af9 (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>
-rw-r--r--Makefile.am3
-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml149
2 files changed, 151 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 03a6a4e594..456553fa5e 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ MANPAGES = \
man/halt.8 \
man/shutdown.8 \
man/pam_systemd.8 \
- man/systemd.conf.5
+ man/systemd.conf.5 \
+ man/tmpfiles.d.5
MANPAGES_ALIAS = \
man/reboot.8 \
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5ff53ef766
--- /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/&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>