Seedfiles

Seedfiles is a drop-in reimplementation of systemd-tmpfiles.

It supports most features of systemd-tmpfiles. And searches the same config paths.

Diferences to systemd-tmpfiles

Following features are not implemented in seedfiles, but exist in systemd-tmpfiles. If any feature is needed but not implemented, feel free to open an issue or send a patch!

Item types:

e - Adjusting permissions on existing directory

Modifiers:

~ - base64 decoded fields
^ - reading arguments from systemd-credentials
$ - entries for --purge
? - skip symlink creation if target doesn’t exist

CLI Flags:

--purge - Delete everything that would have been created
--cat-config - Print all resolved config files
--tldr - Same as --cat-config but without comments
--gaceful - Silently ignoring users/groups
-E - Exclude /dev, /proc, /run and /sys prefixes
--root - Operating on an alternative system root
--image - Operate on a disk image
--image-policy - Disk image policy
--replace - Replace specific config files

Missing Features/Subsystems

SELinux - No label management, z/Zonly do chmod/chown
age-by - Timestamp in age column is ignored, only mtime is checked by cleanup
credentials - No systemd-credentials support
BTRFS - v/q/Q fall back to mkdir, don’t act on subvolumes/quotas