Systemd practices?

Question

I decided to move to systemd a while back, by following the guide on the wiki.
I got as far as to pure systemd, but my rc.local and rc.local.shutdown aren't empty.
So now I'm stuck, because I don't know what the "best practice" is with these startup/shutdown scripts.
rc.local contains this:
/usr/local/sbin/acpidpwr-update
and rc.local.shutdown this:
find /home/bladt/.tmp -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;
The line in rc.local makes sure acpid gets updated about the power supply after boot (I'm on a laptop).
Supposedly systemd can handle some of the stuff acpid handles, but not this.
(maybe it should be a udev rule or something?)
The line in rc.local.shutdown just cleans up a little in a directory I use for temporary files (vim ~ and .swap files and screen dumps mostly).
Now where should I put these? should they be made into services or what is the right way?

Answer 1

OK. It turns out that you also need to read 'man systemd-tmpfiles'. The 'Type' field doesn't really mean anything other than pay 'attention to this directory' when cleaning. In your case, use d as per tmp.conf. This was a terrible design decision. The grammar should have been as follows:
Line ::= Type Path Arguments*
|| Constraints
Type ::= CreateTypes
|RemoveTypes
|WriteTypes
|CleanTypes
|SELinuxTypes
|LinkTypes
// f: create file
// F: create and truncate file
// p: create pipe
// c: create char dev
// b: create block dev
// d: create dir
// D: create and truncate dir
CreateTypes ::= 'f'|'F'|'p'|'c'|'b'|'d'|'D'
// r: remove
// R: remove recursive
RemoveTypes ::= 'r'|'R'
// w: write string to...
WriteTypes ::= 'w'
// c: clean this directory
// x: except these files
CleanTypes ::= 'c'|'x'
// z: restore label
// Z: recursively restore label
SELinuxTypes ::= 'z'|'Z'
// L: link
LinkTypes ::= 'L'
Arguments ::= CreateArguments
Arguments |RemoveArguments
|WriteArguments
|CleanArguments
|SELinuxArguments
|LinkArguments
CreateArguments ::= Mode|UID|GID
RemoveArguments ::= Path
WriteArguments ::= String
CleanArguments ::= Age
SELinuxArguments ::= Label
LinkArguments ::= Path
Constraints ::= CreateConstraint
|| RemoveConstraint
|| WriteConstraint
|| CleanConstraint
|| SELinuxConstraint
|| LinkConstraint
CreateConstraint ::= CreateTypes Path Mode UID GID
RemoveConstraint ::= RemoveTypes Path
WriteConstraint ::= WriteTypes Path String
CleanConstraint ::= CleanTypes Path Age
SELinuxConstraint ::= SELinuxTypes Path Label
LinkConstraint ::= LinkTypes Path Path
TL;DR: clean in separate rules and define arguments on a per type basis.
(define gratuitous  <this>)
-- edit: glaring discrepancies.
Last edited by Stebalien (2012-10-19 03:57:04)