[systemd-devel] sanity check: why am I unable to manage my own directory with systemd-tmpfiles?

Brian Reichert reichert at numachi.com
Fri Jan 31 15:49:23 UTC 2025


On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 10:45:50AM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote:
> > If you want to only consider modification time, specify it as something
> > like "mM:10d" ??? see "Age" in tmpfiles.d(5).
> 
> I cannot find any reference to this modifier, in either that online
> doc I cited above, nor in the manpage for tmpfiles.d(5) for my
> distro.
> 
> Can you provide a pointer to some doc explaining that directive?

NM, they do seem to be covered in

  https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d

, just not as clearly laid out as I hoped for.

I do appreciate the advice!

-- 
Brian Reichert				<reichert at numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large	


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