Bug 1226331

Summary: manpage tmpfiles.d needs clarification
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Fred van Zwieten <fvzwieten>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.1CC: andre.rozendaal, jscotka, jsynacek, kwalker, lnykryn, msekleta, rvdwees, systemd-maint-list
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Bug Blocks: 1203710, 1295396, 1298243, 1313485, 1383699, 1393867    

Description Fred van Zwieten 2015-05-29 13:06:49 UTC
Description of problem:
The manpage doesn't explain the effects of age very well. For example:
1. What does the age parameter do on a filetype d? The explanation for filetype d is "Create a directory if it does not exist yet." How does the age parameter come into play with this?
2. Same for the x file type. Who does age work in the exclusion of a directory.
3. With D, and specifying a dir, for example /var/mylog, does the age parameter work on the directory itself /var/mylog, or on the content of the directory (each file or directory within /var/mylog). The explaination of the ~ for the age parameter suggest the latter.

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