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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-01-18 16:39:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2012-01-18 16:39:04 +0100 |
| commit | 31ed59c51126fce7d958c188772a397e2a1ed010 (patch) | |
| tree | 4283457ed50bb46e3cbf86bcc5bb06e1f3479a1a /man | |
| parent | 88f06645623467f9c8db88afca64557d62e38c61 (diff) | |
tmpfiles: support writing short strings to files, in order to support /sys manipulations at boot time, a la sysctl
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/tmpfiles.d.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index 080da6681b..25a7c9ba48 100644 --- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml +++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml @@ -98,12 +98,17 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><varname>f</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Create a file if it doesn't exist yet (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>F</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>Create or truncate a file (optionally writing a short string into it, if the argument parameter is passed)</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>w</varname></term> + <listitem><para>Write the argument parameter to a file, if it exists.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -260,7 +265,10 @@ L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null</programlisting> path of the symlink. For c, b determines the major/minor of the device node, with major and minor formatted as integers, separated by :, - e.g. "1:3". Ignored for all other lines.</para> + e.g. "1:3". For f, F, w may be used to specify + a short string that is written to the file, + suffixed by a newline. Ignored for all other + lines.</para> </refsect2> </refsect1> |