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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2014-01-02 00:02:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2015-01-24 23:38:59 -0500 |
| commit | df99a9ef5bb7a89b92ccfb103b2f3e7046c62ef5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d85f21a5c7e922e384f9b74006b6ea04cea4920 /man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | |
| parent | 582deb8446b7c76f945bb3174a8059d56b5edb65 (diff) | |
tmpfiles: do not bump access times of directories we are cleaning up
Both plain opendir() and glob() will bump access time. Privileged
option O_NOATIME can be used to prevent the access time from being
updated. We already used it for subdirectories of the directories
which we were cleaning up. But for the directories specified directly
in the config files, we wouldn't do that. This means that,
paradoxically, our own temporary directories for PrivateTmp would stay
around forever, as long as one let systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service run
regularly, because they had their own glob patterns specified.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183684
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml index 9a9bf17136..d4c5bf26e4 100644 --- a/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml +++ b/man/systemd-tmpfiles.xml @@ -185,6 +185,19 @@ </refsect1> <refsect1> + <title>Unprivileged --cleanup operation</title> + + <para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> tries to + avoid changing the access and modification times on + the directories it accesses, which requires + <constant>CAP_ADMIN</constant> privileges. When + running as non-root, directories which are checked for + files to clean up will have their access time bumped, + which might prevent their cleanup. + </para> + </refsect1> + + <refsect1> <title>Exit status</title> <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure |