systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service, systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service, systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service, systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer — Creates, deletes and cleans up volatile and temporary files and directories
systemd-tmpfiles [OPTIONS...] [CONFIGFILE...]
System units:
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
User units:
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer
systemd-tmpfiles creates, deletes, and cleans up volatile and temporary files and directories, based on the configuration file format and location specified in tmpfiles.d(5).
If invoked with no arguments, it applies all directives from all configuration
files. When invoked with --replace=,
arguments specified on the command line are used instead of the configuration file
PATHPATH. Otherwise, if one or more absolute filenames are
passed on the command line, only the directives in these files are applied. If
"-" is specified instead of a filename, directives are read from
standard input. If only the basename of a configuration file is specified, all
configuration directories as specified in
tmpfiles.d(5)
are searched for a matching file and the file found that has the highest priority is
executed.
The following options are understood:
--create¶If this option is passed, all files and
directories marked with
f,
F,
w,
d,
D,
v,
p,
L,
c,
b,
m
in the configuration files are created or written to. Files
and directories marked with
z,
Z,
t,
T,
a, and
A have their ownership, access mode and
security labels set.
--clean¶If this option is passed, all files and directories with an age parameter configured will be cleaned up.
--remove¶If this option is passed, the contents of
directories marked with D or
R, and files or directories themselves
marked with r or R are
removed.
--user¶Execute "user" configuration, i.e. tmpfiles.d
files in user configuration directories.
--boot¶Also execute lines with an exclamation mark.
--prefix=path¶Only apply rules with paths that start with the specified prefix. This option can be specified multiple times.
--exclude-prefix=path¶Ignore rules with paths that start with the specified prefix. This option can be specified multiple times.
--root=root¶Takes a directory path as an argument. All paths will be prefixed with the given alternate
root path, including config search paths.
Note that this option does not alter how the users and groups specified in the configuration files are resolved. With or without this option, users and groups are always resolved according to the host's user and group databases, any such databases stored under the specified root directories are not consulted.
--replace=PATH¶When this option is given, one ore more positional arguments
must be specified. All configuration files found in the directories listed in
tmpfiles.d(5)
will be read, and the configuration given on the command line will be
handled instead of and with the same priority as the configuration file
PATH.
This option is intended to be used when package installation scripts are running and files belonging to that package are not yet available on disk, so their contents must be given on the command line, but the admin configuration might already exist and should be given higher priority.
--cat-config¶Copy the contents of config files to standard output. Before each file, the filename is printed as a comment.
--no-pager¶Do not pipe output into a pager.
-h, --help¶--version¶It is possible to combine --create,
--clean, and --remove in one
invocation. For example, during boot the following command line is
executed to ensure that all temporary and volatile directories are
removed and created according to the configuration file:
systemd-tmpfiles --remove --create
systemd-tmpfiles tries to avoid changing
the access and modification times on the directories it accesses,
which requires CAP_FOWNER privileges. When
running as non-root, directories which are checked for files to
clean up will have their access time bumped, which might prevent
their cleanup.
On success, 0 is returned. If the configuration was syntactically invalid (syntax errors,
missing arguments, …), so some lines had to be ignored, but no other errors occurred,
65 is returned (EX_DATAERR from
/usr/include/sysexits.h). If the configuration was syntactically valid, but
could not be executed (lack of permissions, creation of files in missing directories, invalid
contents when writing to /sys/ values, …), 73 is
returned (EX_CANTCREAT from /usr/include/sysexits.h).
Otherwise, 1 is returned (EXIT_FAILURE from
/usr/include/stdlib.h).