[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 211

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 12/03/14 00:30 did gyre and gimble:
>         * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and
>           RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to
>           manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is
>           an alternative for setting up directory permissions with
>           tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime
>           directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that
>           the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This
>           is particularly useful when writing services that drop
>           priviliges using the User= or Group= setting.

Very handy!

Am I correct to assume that if a User=/Group= directive is given that
said RuntimeDirectory would be owned/group-owned as appropriate?

Col

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