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man/tmpfiles.d: rewrite the description of age-by
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<refsect2>
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<refsect2>
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<title>Age</title>
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<title>Age</title>
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<para>The date field, when set, is used to decide what files to
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<para>The date field, when set, is used to decide what files to
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delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the
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delete when cleaning. If a file or directory is older than the
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current time minus the age field, it is deleted. The field
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current time minus the age field, it is deleted. The field
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and <varname>X</varname>. If omitted or set to
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and <varname>X</varname>. If omitted or set to
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<literal>-</literal>, no automatic clean-up is done.</para>
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<literal>-</literal>, no automatic clean-up is done.</para>
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<para>If the age field starts with a tilde character
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<para>If the age field starts with a tilde character <literal>~</literal>, clean-up is only applied to
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<literal>~</literal>, the clean-up is only applied to files and
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files and directories one level inside the directory specified, but not the files and directories
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directories one level inside the directory specified, but not
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immediately inside it.</para>
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the files and directories immediately inside it.</para>
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<para>The age of a file system entry is determined from its last
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<para>The age of a file system entry is determined from its last
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modification timestamp (mtime), its last access timestamp (atime),
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modification timestamp (mtime), its last access timestamp (atime),
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the age field. To restrict the deletion based on particular type
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the age field. To restrict the deletion based on particular type
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of file timestamps, the age-by argument can be used.</para>
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of file timestamps, the age-by argument can be used.</para>
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<para>The age-by argument, when (optionally) specified along
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<para>The age-by argument overrides the timestamp types to be used for the age check. It can be
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with age will check if the file system entry has aged by the
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specified by prefixing the age argument with a sequence of characters to specify the timestamp types
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type of file timestamp(s) provided. It can be specified by
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and a colon (<literal>:</literal>):
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prefixing the age argument with a set of file timestamp types
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<literal><replaceable>age-by</replaceable>...:<replaceable>cleanup-age</replaceable></literal>. The
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followed by a colon character <literal>:</literal>, i.e.,
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argument can consist of <constant>a</constant> (<constant>A</constant> for directories),
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<literal><replaceable>age-by</replaceable>:<replaceable>cleanup-age</replaceable></literal>.
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<constant>b</constant> (<constant>B</constant> for directories), <constant>c</constant>
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The argument can be a set of:
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(<constant>C</constant> for directories), or <constant>m</constant> (<constant>M</constant> for
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<constant>a</constant> (<constant>A</constant> for directories),
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directories). Those respectively indicate access, creation, last status change, and last modification
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<constant>b</constant> (<constant>B</constant> for directories),
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time of a file system entry. The lower-case letter signifies that the given timestamp type should be
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<constant>c</constant> (<constant>C</constant> for directories; ignored by default), or
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considered for files, while the upper-case letter signifies that the given timestamp type should be
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<constant>m</constant> (<constant>M</constant> for directories),
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considered for directories. See <citerefentry
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indicating access, creation, last status change, and last
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project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>statx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry> file
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modification times of a file system entry respectively. See
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timestamp fields for more details about timestamp types.</para>
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<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>statx</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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file timestamp fields for more details.</para>
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<para>If unspecified, the age-by field defaults to
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<para>If not specified, the age-by field defaults to <constant>abcmABM</constant>, i.e. by default all
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<constant>abcmABM</constant>,
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file timestamps are taken into consideration, with the exception of the last status change timestamp
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i.e., by default all file timestamps are taken into consideration,
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(ctime) for directories. This is because the aging logic itself will alter the ctime whenever it
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with the exception of the last status change timestamp (ctime) for
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deletes a file inside it. To ensure that running the aging logic does not feed back into the next
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directories. This is because the aging logic itself will alter the
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iteration of itself, ctime for directories is ignored by default.</para>
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ctime whenever it deletes a file inside it. To ensure that running
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the aging logic does not feed back into the next iteration of it,
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ctime for directories is ignored by default.</para>
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<para>For example:<programlisting>
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<para>For example:<programlisting>
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# Files created and modified, and directories accessed more than
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# Files created and modified, and directories accessed more than
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