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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-02-23 18:59:17 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2015-02-23 20:08:05 -0500
commit00c53f4283ca41878a84b370840a84760b00d46e (patch)
treeb882049606e1387f0c35118e3a2522ec06722d9b /man/tmpfiles.d.xml
parent2c35d880de01c3f37b49b138455ed2c3641e34ca (diff)
man: explain time units in tmpfiles
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195294
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diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
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@@ -443,23 +443,22 @@
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>
+ following postfixes for the respective time units:
+ <constant>s</constant>,
+ <constant>m</constant> or <constant>min</constant>,
+ <constant>h</constant>,
+ <constant>d</constant>,
+ <constant>w</constant>,
+ <constant>ms</constant>,
+ <constant>us</constant>,
+ respectively meaning seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
+ milliseconds, and microseconds. Full names of the time units can
+ be used too.
+ </para>
<para>If multiple integers and units are specified, the time
- values are summed up. If an integer is given without a unit,
- <varname>s</varname> is assumed.
+ values are summed. If an integer is given without a unit,
+ <constant>s</constant> is assumed.
</para>
<para>When the age is set to zero, the files are cleaned