[systemd-devel] systemd-sysusers

[Johannes Ernst]

> On Feb 5, 2018, at 10:31, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:

<snip>

>> systemd-sysusers
>> [[ -d /var/lib/foo ]] && mkdir -m755 /var/lib/foo
>> chown $(id -u foo):$(id -g foo) /var/lib/foo
> 
> # /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/foo.conf
> d /var/lib/foo 0755 foo foo -
> 
> (BTW, chown $(id -u foo):$(id -g foo) ... is the same as chown foo:foo …).

Good point :-)

If so, the wording in man systemd-tmpfiles.d is still rather discouraging to people like me to do it this way because it very clearly talks about “temporary” files.

Thanks,



Johannes.