On Wed, 12.03.14 15:12, Colin Guthrie ([email protected]) wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 12/03/14 00:30 did gyre and gimble: > > * Two new unit file settings RuntimeDirectory= and > > RuntimeDirectoryMode= have been added that may be used to > > manage a per-daemon runtime directories below /run. This is > > an alternative for setting up directory permissions with > > tmpfiles snippets, and has the advantage that the runtime > > directory's lifetime is bound to the daemon runtime and that > > the daemon starts up with an empty directory each time. This > > is particularly useful when writing services that drop > > priviliges using the User= or Group= setting. > > Very handy! > > Am I correct to assume that if a User=/Group= directive is given that > said RuntimeDirectory would be owned/group-owned as appropriate?
Yes. I am wonder though if we should add RuntimeDirectoryUser= and RuntimeDirectoryGroup= too, so that people can manage runtime directories with this that belong to unpriviliged users, even if we start the daemon with priviliges... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
