1TMPFILES.D(5)                     tmpfiles.d                     TMPFILES.D(5)
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NAME

6       tmpfiles.d - Configuration for creation, deletion and cleaning of
7       volatile and temporary files
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SYNOPSIS

10       /etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf
11       /run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf
12       /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf
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14
15       ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf
16       $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf
17       ~/.local/share/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf
18       ...
19       /usr/share/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf
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23       #Type Path                                     Mode User Group Age         Argument
24       f     /file/to/create                          mode user group -           content
25       F     /file/to/create-or-truncate              mode user group -           content
26       w     /file/to/write-to                        -    -    -     -           content
27       d     /directory/to/create-and-cleanup         mode user group cleanup-age -
28       D     /directory/to/create-and-remove          mode user group cleanup-age -
29       e     /directory/to/cleanup                    mode user group cleanup-age -
30       v     /subvolume/to/create                     mode user group -           -
31       v     /subvolume-or-directory/to/create        mode user group -           -
32       Q     /subvolume/to/create                     mode user group -           -
33       p     /fifo/to/create                          mode user group -           -
34       L     /symlink/to/create                       -    -    -     -           symlink/target/path
35       c     /dev/char-device-to-create               mode user group -           -
36       b     /dev/block-device-to-create              mode user group -           -
37       # p+, L+, c+, b+ create target unconditionally
38       C     /target/to/create                        -    -    -     -           /source/to/copy
39       x     /path-or-glob/to/ignore                  -    -    -     -           -
40       X     /path-or-glob/to/ignore/recursively      -    -    -     -           -
41       r     /empty/dir/to/remove                     -    -    -     -           -
42       R     /dir/to/remove/recursively               -    -    -     -           -
43       z     /path-or-glob/to/adjust/mode             mode user group -           MAC context
44       Z     /path-or-glob/to/adjust/mode/recursively mode user group -           MAC context
45       t     /path-or-glob/to/set/xattrs              -    -    -     -           xattrs
46       T     /path-or-glob/to/set/xattrs/recursively  -    -    -     -           xattrs
47       h     /path-or-glob/to/set/attrs               -    -    -     -           file attrs
48       H     /path-or-glob/to/set/attrs/recursively   -    -    -     -           file attrs
49       a     /path-or-glob/to/set/acls                -    -    -     -           POSIX ACLs
50       A     /path-or-glob/to/set/acls/recursively    -    -    -     -           POSIX ACLs
51       # a+, A+ append ACLs
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DESCRIPTION

54       tmpfiles.d configuration files provide a generic mechanism to define
55       the creation of regular files, directories, pipes, and device nodes,
56       adjustments to their access mode, ownership, attributes, quota
57       assignments, and contents, and finally their time-based removal. It is
58       mostly commonly used for volatile and temporary files and directories
59       (such as those located under /run, /tmp, /var/tmp, the API file systems
60       such as /sys or /proc, as well as some other directories below /var).
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62       systemd-tmpfiles uses this configuration to create volatile files and
63       directories during boot and to do periodic cleanup afterwards. See
64       systemd-tmpfiles(5) for the description of
65       systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service, systemd-tmpfiles-cleanup.service, and
66       associated units.
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68       System daemons frequently require private runtime directories below
69       /run to store communication sockets and similar. For these, is is
70       better to use RuntimeDirectory= in their unit files (see
71       systemd.exec(5) for details), if the flexibility provided by tmpfiles.d
72       is not required. The advantages are that the configuration required by
73       the unit is centralized in one place, and that the lifetime of the
74       directory is tied to the lifetime of the service itself. Similarly,
75       StateDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, and
76       ConfigurationDirectory= should be used to create directories under
77       /var/lib/, /var/cache/, /var/log/, and /etc/.  tmpfiles.d should be
78       used for files whose lifetime is independent of any service or requires
79       more complicated configuration.
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CONFIGURATION DIRECTORIES AND PRECEDENCE

82       Each configuration file shall be named in the style of package.conf or
83       package-part.conf. The second variant should be used when it is
84       desirable to make it easy to override just this part of configuration.
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86       Files in /etc/tmpfiles.d override files with the same name in
87       /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d and /run/tmpfiles.d. Files in /run/tmpfiles.d
88       override files with the same name in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. Packages
89       should install their configuration files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. Files
90       in /etc/tmpfiles.d are reserved for the local administrator, who may
91       use this logic to override the configuration files installed by vendor
92       packages. All configuration files are sorted by their filename in
93       lexicographic order, regardless of which of the directories they reside
94       in. If multiple files specify the same path, the entry in the file with
95       the lexicographically earliest name will be applied. All other
96       conflicting entries will be logged as errors. When two lines are prefix
97       path and suffix path of each other, then the prefix line is always
98       created first, the suffix later (and if removal applies to the line,
99       the order is reversed: the suffix is removed first, the prefix later).
100       Lines that take globs are applied after those accepting no globs. If
101       multiple operations shall be applied on the same file (such as ACL,
102       xattr, file attribute adjustments), these are always done in the same
103       fixed order. Except for those cases, the files/directories are
104       processed in the order they are listed.
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106       If the administrator wants to disable a configuration file supplied by
107       the vendor, the recommended way is to place a symlink to /dev/null in
108       /etc/tmpfiles.d/ bearing the same filename.
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CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT

111       The configuration format is one line per path containing type, path,
112       mode, ownership, age, and argument fields:
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114           #Type Path        Mode User Group Age Argument
115           d     /run/user   0755 root root  10d -
116           L     /tmp/foobar -    -    -     -   /dev/null
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118       Fields may be enclosed within quotes and contain C-style escapes.
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120   Type
121       The type consists of a single letter and optionally an exclamation mark
122       and/or minus sign.
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124       The following line types are understood:
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126       f
127           Create a file if it does not exist yet. If the argument parameter
128           is given and the file did not exist yet, it will be written to the
129           file. Does not follow symlinks.
130
131       F
132           Create or truncate a file. If the argument parameter is given, it
133           will be written to the file. Does not follow symlinks.
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135       w
136           Write the argument parameter to a file, if the file exists. Lines
137           of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path
138           names. The argument parameter will be written without a trailing
139           newline. C-style backslash escapes are interpreted. Follows
140           symlinks.
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142       d
143           Create a directory. The mode and ownership will be adjusted if
144           specified. Contents of this directory are subject to time based
145           cleanup if the age argument is specified.
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147       D
148           Similar to d, but in addition the contents of the directory will be
149           removed when --remove is used.
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151       e
152           Adjust the mode and ownership of existing directories and remove
153           their contents based on age. Lines of this type accept shell-style
154           globs in place of normal path names. Contents of the directories
155           are subject to time based cleanup if the age argument is specified.
156           If the age argument is "0", contents will be unconditionally
157           deleted every time systemd-tmpfiles --clean is run.
158
159           For this entry to be useful, at least one of the mode, user, group,
160           or age arguments must be specified, since otherwise this entry has
161           no effect. As an exception, an entry with no effect may be useful
162           when combined with !, see the examples.
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164       v
165           Create a subvolume if the path does not exist yet, the file system
166           supports subvolumes (btrfs), and the system itself is installed
167           into a subvolume (specifically: the root directory / is itself a
168           subvolume). Otherwise, create a normal directory, in the same way
169           as d.
170
171           A subvolume created with this line type is not assigned to any
172           higher-level quota group. For that, use q or Q, which allow
173           creating simple quota group hierarchies, see below.
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175       q
176           Create a subvolume or directory the same as v, but assign the
177           subvolume to the same higher-level quota groups as the parent. This
178           ensures that higher-level limits and accounting applied to the
179           parent subvolume also include the specified subvolume. On non-btrfs
180           file systems, this line type is identical to d.
181
182           If the subvolume already exists, no change to the quota hierarchy
183           is made, regardless of whether the subvolume is already attached to
184           a quota group or not. Also see Q below. See btrfs-qgroup(8) for
185           details about the btrfs quota group concept.
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187       Q
188           Create the subvolume or directory the same as v, but assign the new
189           subvolume to a new leaf quota group. Instead of copying the
190           higher-level quota group assignments from the parent as is done
191           with q, the lowest quota group of the parent subvolume is
192           determined that is not the leaf quota group. Then, an
193           "intermediary" quota group is inserted that is one level below this
194           level, and shares the same ID part as the specified subvolume. If
195           no higher-level quota group exists for the parent subvolume, a new
196           quota group at level 255 sharing the same ID as the specified
197           subvolume is inserted instead. This new intermediary quota group is
198           then assigned to the parent subvolume's higher-level quota groups,
199           and the specified subvolume's leaf quota group is assigned to it.
200
201           Effectively, this has a similar effect as q, however introduces a
202           new higher-level quota group for the specified subvolume that may
203           be used to enforce limits and accounting to the specified subvolume
204           and children subvolume created within it. Thus, by creating
205           subvolumes only via q and Q, a concept of "subtree quotas" is
206           implemented. Each subvolume for which Q is set will get a "subtree"
207           quota group created, and all child subvolumes created within it
208           will be assigned to it. Each subvolume for which q is set will not
209           get such a "subtree" quota group, but it is ensured that they are
210           added to the same "subtree" quota group as their immediate parents.
211
212           It is recommended to use Q for subvolumes that typically contain
213           further subvolumes, and where it is desirable to have accounting
214           and quota limits on all child subvolumes together. Examples for Q
215           are typically /home or /var/lib/machines. In contrast, q should be
216           used for subvolumes that either usually do not include further
217           subvolumes or where no accounting and quota limits are needed that
218           apply to all child subvolumes together. Examples for q are
219           typically /var or /var/tmp.
220
221           As with q, Q has no effect on the quota group hierarchy if the
222           subvolume already exists, regardless of whether the subvolume
223           already belong to a quota group or not.
224
225       p, p+
226           Create a named pipe (FIFO) if it does not exist yet. If suffixed
227           with + and a file already exists where the pipe is to be created,
228           it will be removed and be replaced by the pipe.
229
230       L, L+
231           Create a symlink if it does not exist yet. If suffixed with + and a
232           file or directory already exists where the symlink is to be
233           created, it will be removed and be replaced by the symlink. If the
234           argument is omitted, symlinks to files with the same name residing
235           in the directory /usr/share/factory/ are created. Note that
236           permissions and ownership on symlinks are ignored.
237
238       c, c+
239           Create a character device node if it does not exist yet. If
240           suffixed with + and a file already exists where the device node is
241           to be created, it will be removed and be replaced by the device
242           node. It is recommended to suffix this entry with an exclamation
243           mark to only create static device nodes at boot, as udev will not
244           manage static device nodes that are created at runtime.
245
246       b, b+
247           Create a block device node if it does not exist yet. If suffixed
248           with + and a file already exists where the device node is to be
249           created, it will be removed and be replaced by the device node. It
250           is recommended to suffix this entry with an exclamation mark to
251           only create static device nodes at boot, as udev will not manage
252           static device nodes that are created at runtime.
253
254       C
255           Recursively copy a file or directory, if the destination files or
256           directories do not exist yet or the destination directory is empty.
257           Note that this command will not descend into subdirectories if the
258           destination directory already exists and is not empty. Instead, the
259           entire copy operation is skipped. If the argument is omitted, files
260           from the source directory /usr/share/factory/ with the same name
261           are copied. Does not follow symlinks.
262
263       x
264           Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths from
265           clean-up as controlled with the Age parameter. Note that lines of
266           this type do not influence the effect of r or R lines. Lines of
267           this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
268
269       X
270           Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths from
271           clean-up as controlled with the Age parameter. Unlike x, this
272           parameter will not exclude the content if path is a directory, but
273           only directory itself. Note that lines of this type do not
274           influence the effect of r or R lines. Lines of this type accept
275           shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
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277       r
278           Remove a file or directory if it exists. This may not be used to
279           remove non-empty directories, use R for that. Lines of this type
280           accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names. Does not
281           follow symlinks.
282
283       R
284           Recursively remove a path and all its subdirectories (if it is a
285           directory). Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of
286           normal path names. Does not follow symlinks.
287
288       z
289           Adjust the access mode, user and group ownership, and restore the
290           SELinux security context of a file or directory, if it exists.
291           Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path
292           names. Does not follow symlinks.
293
294       Z
295           Recursively set the access mode, user and group ownership, and
296           restore the SELinux security context of a file or directory if it
297           exists, as well as of its subdirectories and the files contained
298           therein (if applicable). Lines of this type accept shell-style
299           globs in place of normal path names. Does not follow symlinks.
300
301       t
302           Set extended attributes, see attr(5) for details. The argument
303           field should take one or more assignment expressions in the form
304           namespace.attribute=value, for examples see below. Lines of this
305           type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names. This
306           can be useful for setting SMACK labels. Does not follow symlinks.
307
308           Please note that extended attributes settable with this line type
309           are a different concept from the Linux file attributes settable
310           with h/H, see below.
311
312       T
313           Same as t, but operates recursively.
314
315       h
316           Set Linux file/directory attributes. Lines of this type accept
317           shell-style globs in place of normal path names.
318
319           The format of the argument field is [+-=][aAcCdDeijPsStTu]. The
320           prefix + (the default one) causes the attribute(s) to be added; -
321           causes the attribute(s) to be removed; = causes the attributes to
322           be set exactly as the following letters. The letters
323           "aAcCdDeijPsStTu" select the new attributes for the files, see
324           chattr(1) for further information.
325
326           Passing only = as argument resets all the file attributes listed
327           above. It has to be pointed out that the = prefix limits itself to
328           the attributes corresponding to the letters listed here. All other
329           attributes will be left untouched. Does not follow symlinks.
330
331           Please note that the Linux file attributes settable with this line
332           type are a different concept from the extended attributes settable
333           with t/T, see above.
334
335       H
336           Sames as h, but operates recursively.
337
338       a, a+
339           Set POSIX ACLs (access control lists), see acl(5). If suffixed with
340           +, the specified entries will be added to the existing set.
341           systemd-tmpfiles will automatically add the required base entries
342           for user and group based on the access mode of the file, unless
343           base entries already exist or are explicitly specified. The mask
344           will be added if not specified explicitly or already present. Lines
345           of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path
346           names. This can be useful for allowing additional access to certain
347           files. Does not follow symlinks.
348
349       A, A+
350           Same as a and a+, but recursive. Does not follow symlinks.
351
352       If the exclamation mark is used, this line is only safe to execute
353       during boot, and can break a running system. Lines without the
354       exclamation mark are presumed to be safe to execute at any time, e.g.
355       on package upgrades.  systemd-tmpfiles will execute line with an
356       exclamation mark only if option --boot is given.
357
358       For example:
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360           # Make sure these are created by default so that nobody else can
361           d /tmp/.X11-unix 1777 root root 10d
362
363           # Unlink the X11 lock files
364           r! /tmp/.X[0-9]*-lock
365
366       The second line in contrast to the first one would break a running
367       system, and will only be executed with --boot.
368
369       If the minus sign is used, this line failing to run successfully during
370       create (and only create) will not cause the execution of
371       systemd-tmpfiles to return an error.
372
373       For example:
374
375           # Modify sysfs but don't fail if we are in a container with a read-only /proc
376           w- /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - - - - 10
377
378       Note that for all line types that result in creation of any kind of
379       file node (i.e.  f/F, d/D/v/q/Q, p, L, c/b and C) leading directories
380       are implicitly created if needed, owned by root with an access mode of
381       0755. In order to create them with different modes or ownership make
382       sure to add appropriate d lines.
383
384   Path
385       The file system path specification supports simple specifier expansion,
386       see below. The path (after expansion) must be absolute.
387
388   Mode
389       The file access mode to use when creating this file or directory. If
390       omitted or when set to "-", the default is used: 0755 for directories,
391       0644 for all other file objects. For z, Z lines, if omitted or when set
392       to "-", the file access mode will not be modified. This parameter is
393       ignored for x, r, R, L, t, and a lines.
394
395       Optionally, if prefixed with "~", the access mode is masked based on
396       the already set access bits for existing file or directories: if the
397       existing file has all executable bits unset, all executable bits are
398       removed from the new access mode, too. Similarly, if all read bits are
399       removed from the old access mode, they will be removed from the new
400       access mode too, and if all write bits are removed, they will be
401       removed from the new access mode too. In addition, the sticky/SUID/SGID
402       bit is removed unless applied to a directory. This functionality is
403       particularly useful in conjunction with Z.
404
405   User, Group
406       The user and group to use for this file or directory. This may either
407       be a numeric ID or a user/group name. If omitted or when set to "-",
408       the user and group of the user who invokes systemd-tmpfiles is used.
409       For z and Z lines, when omitted or when set to "-", the file ownership
410       will not be modified. These parameters are ignored for x, r, R, L, t,
411       and a lines.
412
413       This field should generally only reference system users/groups, i.e.
414       users/groups that are guaranteed to be resolvable during early boot. If
415       this field references users/groups that only become resolveable during
416       later boot (i.e. after NIS, LDAP or a similar networked directory
417       service become available), execution of the operations declared by the
418       line will likely fail. Also see Notes on Resolvability of User and
419       Group Names[1] for more information on requirements on system
420       user/group definitions.
421
422   Age
423       The date field, when set, is used to decide what files to delete when
424       cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the current time minus
425       the age field, it is deleted. The field format is a series of integers
426       each followed by one of the following suffixes for the respective time
427       units: s, m or min, h, d, w, ms, and us, meaning seconds, minutes,
428       hours, days, weeks, milliseconds, and microseconds, respectively. Full
429       names of the time units can be used too.
430
431       If multiple integers and units are specified, the time values are
432       summed. If an integer is given without a unit, s is assumed.
433
434       When the age is set to zero, the files are cleaned unconditionally.
435
436       The age field only applies to lines starting with d, D, e, v, q, Q, C,
437       x and X. If omitted or set to "-", no automatic clean-up is done.
438
439       If the age field starts with a tilde character "~", the clean-up is
440       only applied to files and directories one level inside the directory
441       specified, but not the files and directories immediately inside it.
442
443       The age of a file system entry is determined from its last modification
444       timestamp (mtime), its last access timestamp (atime), and (except for
445       directories) its last status change timestamp (ctime). Any of these
446       three (or two) values will prevent cleanup if it is more recent than
447       the current time minus the age field.
448
449       Note that while the aging algorithm is run a 'shared' BSD file lock
450       (see flock(2)) is taken on each directory the algorithm descends into
451       (and each directory below that, and so on). If the aging algorithm
452       finds a lock is already taken on some directory, it (and everything
453       below it) is skipped. Applications may use this to temporarily exclude
454       certain directory subtrees from the aging algorithm: the applications
455       can take a BSD file lock themselves, and as long as they keep it aging
456       of the directory and everything below it is disabled.
457
458   Argument
459       For L lines determines the destination path of the symlink. For c and
460       b, determines the major/minor of the device node, with major and minor
461       formatted as integers, separated by ":", e.g.  "1:3". For f, F, and w,
462       the argument may be used to specify a short string that is written to
463       the file, suffixed by a newline. For C, specifies the source file or
464       directory. For t and T, determines extended attributes to be set. For a
465       and A, determines ACL attributes to be set. For h and H, determines the
466       file attributes to set. Ignored for all other lines.
467
468       This field can contain specifiers, see below.
469

SPECIFIERS

471       Specifiers can be used in the "path" and "argument" fields. An unknown
472       or unresolvable specifier is treated as invalid configuration. The
473       following expansions are understood:
474
475       Table 1. Specifiers available
476       ┌──────────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
477Specifier Meaning             Details             
478       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
479       │"%b"      │ Boot ID             │ The boot ID of the  │
480       │          │                     │ running system,     │
481       │          │                     │ formatted as        │
482       │          │                     │ string. See         │
483       │          │                     │ random(4) for more  │
484       │          │                     │ information.        │
485       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
486       │"%C"      │ System or user      │ In --user mode,     │
487       │          │ cache directory     │ this is the same as │
488       │          │                     │ $XDG_CACHE_HOME,    │
489       │          │                     │ and /var/cache      │
490       │          │                     │ otherwise.          │
491       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
492       │"%h"      │ User home directory │ This is the home    │
493       │          │                     │ directory of the    │
494       │          │                     │ user running the    │
495       │          │                     │ command. In case of │
496       │          │                     │ the system instance │
497       │          │                     │ this resolves to    │
498       │          │                     │ "/root".            │
499       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
500       │"%H"      │ Host name           │ The hostname of the │
501       │          │                     │ running system.     │
502       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
503       │"%L"      │ System or user log  │ In --user mode,     │
504       │          │ directory           │ this is the same as │
505       │          │                     │ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
506       │          │                     │ with /log appended, │
507       │          │                     │ and /var/log        │
508       │          │                     │ otherwise.          │
509       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
510       │"%m"      │ Machine ID          │ The machine ID of   │
511       │          │                     │ the running system, │
512       │          │                     │ formatted as        │
513       │          │                     │ string. See         │
514       │          │                     │ machine-id(5) for   │
515       │          │                     │ more information.   │
516       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
517       │"%S"      │ System or user      │ In --user mode,     │
518       │          │ state directory     │ this is the same as │
519       │          │                     │ $XDG_CONFIG_HOME,   │
520       │          │                     │ and /var/lib        │
521       │          │                     │ otherwise.          │
522       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
523       │"%t"      │ System or user      │ In --user mode,     │
524       │          │ runtime directory   │ this is the same    │
525       │          │                     │ $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR,   │
526       │          │                     │ and /run otherwise. │
527       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
528       │"%T"      │ Directory for       │ This is either /tmp │
529       │          │ temporary files     │ or the path         │
530       │          │                     │ "$TMPDIR", "$TEMP"  │
531       │          │                     │ or "$TMP" are set   │
532       │          │                     │ to.                 │
533       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
534       │"%g"      │ User group          │ This is the name of │
535       │          │                     │ the group running   │
536       │          │                     │ the command. In     │
537       │          │                     │ case of the system  │
538       │          │                     │ instance this       │
539       │          │                     │ resolves to "root". │
540       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
541       │"%G"      │ User GID            │ This is the numeric │
542       │          │                     │ GID of the group    │
543       │          │                     │ running the         │
544       │          │                     │ command. In case of │
545       │          │                     │ the system instance │
546       │          │                     │ this resolves to 0. │
547       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
548       │"%u"      │ User name           │ This is the name of │
549       │          │                     │ the user running    │
550       │          │                     │ the command. In     │
551       │          │                     │ case of the system  │
552       │          │                     │ instance this       │
553       │          │                     │ resolves to "root". │
554       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
555       │"%U"      │ User UID            │ This is the numeric │
556       │          │                     │ UID of the user     │
557       │          │                     │ running the         │
558       │          │                     │ command. In case of │
559       │          │                     │ the system instance │
560       │          │                     │ this resolves to 0. │
561       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
562       │"%v"      │ Kernel release      │ Identical to uname  
563       │          │                     │ -r output.          │
564       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
565       │"%V"      │ Directory for       │ This is either      │
566       │          │ larger and          │ /var/tmp or the     │
567       │          │ persistent          │ path "$TMPDIR",     │
568       │          │ temporary files     │ "$TEMP" or "$TMP"   │
569       │          │                     │ are set to.         │
570       ├──────────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
571       │"%%"      │ Escaped "%"         │ Single percent      │
572       │          │                     │ sign.               │
573       └──────────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘
574

EXAMPLES

576       Example 1. Create directories with specific mode and ownership
577
578       screen(1), needs two directories created at boot with specific modes
579       and ownership:
580
581           # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf
582           d /run/screens  1777 root screen 10d
583           d /run/uscreens 0755 root screen 10d12h
584
585       Contents of /run/screens and /run/uscreens will be cleaned up after 10
586       and 10½ days, respectively.
587
588       Example 2. Create a directory with a SMACK attribute
589
590           D /run/cups - - - -
591           t /run/cups - - - - security.SMACK64=printing user.attr-with-spaces="foo bar"
592
593
594       The directory will be owned by root and have default mode. Its contents
595       are not subject to time based cleanup, but will be obliterated when
596       systemd-tmpfiles --remove runs.
597
598       Example 3. Create a directory and prevent its contents from cleanup
599
600       abrt(1), needs a directory created at boot with specific mode and
601       ownership and its content should be preserved from the automatic
602       cleanup applied to the contents of /var/tmp:
603
604           # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf
605           d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d
606
607           # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/abrt.conf
608           d /var/tmp/abrt 0755 abrt abrt -
609
610       Example 4. Apply clean up during boot and based on time
611
612           # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dnf.conf
613           r! /var/cache/dnf/*/*/download_lock.pid
614           r! /var/cache/dnf/*/*/metadata_lock.pid
615           r! /var/lib/dnf/rpmdb_lock.pid
616           e  /var/cache/dnf/ - - - 30d
617
618       The lock files will be removed during boot. Any files and directories
619       in /var/cache/dnf/ will be removed after they have not been accessed in
620       30 days.
621
622       Example 5. Empty the contents of a cache directory on boot
623
624           # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/krb5rcache.conf
625           e! /var/cache/krb5rcache - - - 0
626
627       Any files and subdirectories in /var/cache/krb5rcache/ will be removed
628       on boot. The directory will not be created.
629

/RUN/ AND /VAR/RUN/

631       /var/run/ is a deprecated symlink to /run/, and applications should use
632       the latter.  systemd-tmpfiles will warn if /var/run/ is used.
633

SEE ALSO

635       systemd(1), systemd-tmpfiles(8), systemd-delta(1), systemd.exec(5),
636       attr(5), getfattr(1), setfattr(1), setfacl(1), getfacl(1), chattr(1),
637       btrfs-subvolume(8), btrfs-qgroup(8)
638

NOTES

640        1. Notes on Resolvability of User and Group Names
641           https://systemd.io/UIDS-GIDS.html#notes-on-resolvability-of-user-and-group-names
642
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