Description

man 5 tmpfiles.d , Age-by example is incorrect.

-d /tmp/foo/bar - - - - bmA:1h -</programlisting></para>

+d /tmp/foo/bar - - - bmA:1h -</programlisting></para>

Affected version:  

systemd-252-46.el9_5.2.x86_64.rpm

Additional Info

It is fixed by systemd upstream.

$ git show f90360eb7417e

commit f90360eb7417e083650034ad819790df0c389bd1

Author: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>

Date:   Wed May 17 11:16:56 2023 +0200

    man/tmpfiles: fix off-by-one in example

    Reported and diagnosed by gitterman. Fixes #26617.

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml index a105b8af394a..f691eef25d85 100644

— a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml

+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml

@@ 647,7 +647,7 @@ w /proc/sys/vm/swappiness - - - - 10</programlisting></para>

       <para>For example:<programlisting>  # Files created and modified, and directories accessed more than  # an hour ago in "/tmp/foo/bar", are subject to time-based cleanup.

-d /tmp/foo/bar - - - - bmA:1h -</programlisting></para>

+d /tmp/foo/bar - - - bmA:1h -</programlisting></para>

       <para>Note that while the aging algorithm is run an exclusive BSD file lock (see <citerefentry

       project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>flock</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>) is

What is the impact of this issue to you?

User unable to configure systemd-tmpfiles-clean using age-by.

How reproducible is this bug?:

Always

Additional Information.

Following KB refer the man 5 tmpfiles.d.

And the example in the KB is also incorrect.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3512701