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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-04-25 21:38:21 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2011-04-25 21:38:21 +0200
commit772f83719e3c2262d948a4c4e70fe9babc4c4610 (patch)
tree973ea77bd6d44c6a96518b8bf9c0ee9aa43159fe /man
parentdb1413d7380acacc4e50faf801ca0d401da89764 (diff)
tmpfiles.d: switch to stacked config dirs in /lib, /etc, /run
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/binfmt.d.xml8
-rw-r--r--man/modules-load.d.xml4
-rw-r--r--man/sysctl.d.xml12
-rw-r--r--man/tmpfiles.d.xml33
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/man/binfmt.d.xml b/man/binfmt.d.xml
index 5a8803f661..966778ded2 100644
--- a/man/binfmt.d.xml
+++ b/man/binfmt.d.xml
@@ -57,9 +57,7 @@
<para><command>systemd</command> uses
files from the above directories to configure
additional binary formats to register during boot in
- the kernel. Each configuration file is named in the
- style of
- <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.</para>
+ the kernel.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -75,7 +73,9 @@
ignored. Note that this means you may not use ; and #
as delimiter in binary format rules.</para>
- <para>Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
+ <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
diff --git a/man/modules-load.d.xml b/man/modules-load.d.xml
index b2f15dc7b6..b633663475 100644
--- a/man/modules-load.d.xml
+++ b/man/modules-load.d.xml
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@
newlines. Empty lines and lines whose first
non-whitespace character is # or ; are ignored.</para>
- <para>Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
+ <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index 51afbfa77a..240aa81137 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -54,12 +54,10 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
- <para><command>systemd</command> uses
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/</filename> to configure
+ <para><command>systemd</command> uses configuration files
+ from the above directories to configure
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sysctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
- kernel parameters to load during boot. Each
- configuration file is named in the style of
- <filename>/etc/sysctl.d/&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.</para>
+ kernel parameters to load during boot.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -73,7 +71,9 @@
<para>Note that both / and . are accepted as
separators in sysctl variable names.</para>
- <para>Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
+ <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index 8568fcd59c..abc74ef6f1 100644
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -47,26 +47,41 @@
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <para><filename>/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
<para><filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
+ <para><filename>/run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf</filename></para>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para><command>systemd-tmpfiles</command> uses the
- configuration files in
- <filename>/etc/tmpfiles.d/</filename> to describe the
+ configuration files from the above directories to describe the
creation, cleaning and removal of volatile and
temporary files and directories which usually reside
in directories such as <filename>/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>
+ or <filename>/tmp</filename>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Configuration Format</title>
+ <para>Each configuration file is named in the style of
+ <filename>&lt;program&gt;.conf</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/etc/</filename> overwrite
+ files with the same name in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>.
+ Files in <filename>/run</filename> overwrite files with
+ the same name in <filename>/etc/</filename> and
+ <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>. Packages should install their
+ configuration files in <filename>/usr/lib/</filename>, files
+ in <filename>/etc/</filename> are reserved for the local
+ administration, which possibly decides to overwrite the
+ configurations installed from packages. All files are sorted
+ by filename in alphabetical order, regardless in which of the
+ directories they reside, to ensure that a specific
+ configuration file takes precedence over another file with
+ an alphabetically later name.</para>
+
<para>The configuration format is one line per path
containing action, mode, ownership and age
fields:</para>
@@ -181,10 +196,12 @@ d /run/user 0755 root root 10d</programlisting>
<term><varname>us</varname></term></varlistentry>
</variablelist>
- <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time values are summed up.</para>
-
- <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up is done.</para>
+ <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time
+ values are summed up.</para>
+ <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
+ d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up
+ is done.</para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>