====== Tmpfiles.d ====== Tmpfiles.d configuration files provide a generic mechanism to define the creation of regular files, directories, pipes, and device nodes, adjustments to their access mode, ownership, attributes, quota assignments, and contents, and finally their time-based removal. It is mostly commonly used for volatile and temporary files and directories (such as those located under /run/, /tmp/, /var/tmp/. ===== File Locations ===== /etc/tmpfiles.d/*.conf /run/tmpfiles.d/*.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/*.conf ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf ~/.local/share/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf /usr/share/user-tmpfiles.d/*.conf Each configuration file shall be named in the style of package.conf or package-part.conf. The second variant should be used when it is desirable to make it easy to override just this part of configuration. Files in /etc/tmpfiles.d override files with the same name in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d and /run/tmpfiles.d. Files in /run/tmpfiles.d override files with the same name in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. Packages should install their configuration files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d. Files in /etc/tmpfiles.d are reserved for the local administrator ===== Configuration File Format ===== The configuration format is one line per path, containing type, path, mode, ownership, age, and argument fields. The lines are separated by newlines, the fields by whitespace: #Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument… d /run/user 0755 root root 10d - L /tmp/foobar - - - - /dev/null #Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument f /file/to/create mode user group - content f+ /file/to/create-or-truncate mode user group - content w /file/to/write-to - - - - content w+ /file/to/append-to - - - - content d /directory/to/create-and-clean-up mode user group cleanup-age - D /directory/to/create-and-remove mode user group cleanup-age - e /directory/to/clean-up mode user group cleanup-age - v /subvolume-or-directory/to/create mode user group cleanup-age - q /subvolume-or-directory/to/create mode user group cleanup-age - Q /subvolume-or-directory/to/create mode user group cleanup-age - p /fifo/to/create mode user group - - p+ /fifo/to/[re]create mode user group - - L /symlink/to/create - - - - symlink/target/path L+ /symlink/to/[re]create - - - - symlink/target/path c /dev/char-device-to-create mode user group - major:minor c+ /dev/char-device-to-[re]create mode user group - major:minor b /dev/block-device-to-create mode user group - major:minor b+ /dev/block-device-to-[re]create mode user group - major:minor C /target/to/create - - - cleanup-age /source/to/copy C+ /target/to/create - - - cleanup-age /source/to/copy x /path-or-glob/to/ignore/recursively - - - cleanup-age - X /path-or-glob/to/ignore - - - cleanup-age - r /path-or-glob/to/remove - - - - - R /path-or-glob/to/remove/recursively - - - - - z /path-or-glob/to/adjust/mode mode user group - - Z /path-or-glob/to/adjust/mode/recursively mode user group - - t /path-or-glob/to/set/xattrs - - - - xattrs T /path-or-glob/to/set/xattrs/recursively - - - - xattrs h /path-or-glob/to/set/attrs - - - - file attrs H /path-or-glob/to/set/attrs/recursively - - - - file attrs a /path-or-glob/to/set/acls - - - - POSIX ACLs a+ /path-or-glob/to/append/acls - - - - POSIX ACLs A /path-or-glob/to/set/acls/recursively - - - - POSIX ACLs A+ /path-or-glob/to/append/acls/recursively - - - - POSIX ACLs ===== Reload configuration ===== systemd-tmpfiles --create