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Created attachment 789098 [details] an example of tmpfiles.d configuration file Description of problem: path of x rules should be ignored during cleaning and if path is directory, all its contents should be ignored too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-206-4.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ touch /var/tmp/abrt/foo 2. put the attached config file to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ 2. $ systemd-tmpfiles --create --clean --remove abrt.conf 3. $ ls /var/tmp/abrt Actual results: ls: cannot access /var/tmp/abrt/foo: No such file or directory Expected results: /var/tmp/abrt/foo
As we have discussed, current behavior is correct. If you don't want to delete whole directory, you have to use glob /var/tmp/abrt/*. This is mentioned in the manpage, but it is not obvious on the first sight. So I would suggest to add this scenario to examples.
(In reply to Lukáš Nykrýn from comment #2) Adding more examples would be great. Thank you!
I find the current man page very confusing on this point. Here is the man page section describing the "x" and "X" types: x Ignore a path during cleaning. Use this type to exclude paths from clean-up as controlled with the Age parameter. Note that lines of this type do not influence the effect of r or R lines. Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names. X Ignore a path during cleanup. Use this type to prevent path removal as controlled with the Age parameter. Note that if path is a directory, content of a directory is not excluded from clean-up, only directory itself. Lines of this type accept shell-style globs in place of normal path names. The only meaningful difference in the descriptions is that "X" says that the "content of a directory is not excluded from clean-up, only directory itself". This suggests that "x" (as opposed to "X") does include the contents of the directory. And I have done some limited testing in F19 to suggest that this is true. A patch to the man page to clarify these behaviors and the differences between "x" and "X" would be really helpful. Thanks, Andy
Andrew, patch that should clarify the differences was committed upstream -> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=e776c8cfcdd65d243ba3f156ded905c589cab24f
Hi Václav, thanks for that clarification. I think it's a big improvement in the man page. But how does this relate to Comment 2 above which says that one must use globbing to prevent the contents of a directory from being deleted? Is comment #2 incorrect? In other words, was this a valid bug to begin with? Thanks, Andy
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