Systemd: Support tmpfiles.d in user instances
This would be really useful for deleting old files from the trash, clearing the cache, clearing old downloads, recreating XDG directories, etc.
Stebalien
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I plus one this.
In my use case, I want to add a directory into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to hold sockets for ssh multiplexing. Since ssh can't create the directory by itself, I thought of systemd-tmpfiles could generate it.
killermoehre
on 26 Sep 2016
I have made a change that makes systemd-tmpfiles recognise %U, %u and %h as well, so this will allow using it in a user context a bit more easily.
That being said, tmpfiles still doesn't support environment variables like e.g. the XDG_... variables, so this doesn't entirely solve this problem yet (I'll wait with opening a pull request).
ayekat
on 5 Oct 2017
Duplicate of this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88873
poettering
on 27 Oct 2017
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I plus one this.
In my use case, I want to add a directory into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to hold sockets for ssh multiplexing. Since ssh can't create the directory by itself, I thought of systemd-tmpfiles could generate it.