<listitem><para>These options take a whitespace-separated list of directory names. The specified directory
names must be relative, and may not include <literal>..</literal>. If set, one or more
directories by the specified names will be created (including their parents) below the locations
- defined in the following table, when the unit is started.</para>
+ defined in the following table, when the unit is started. Also, the corresponding environment variable
+ is defined with the full path of directories. If multiple directories are set, then int the environment variable
+ the paths are concatenated with colon (<literal>:</literal>).</para>
<table>
- <title>Automatic directory creation</title>
- <tgroup cols='3'>
+ <title>Automatic directory creation and environment variables</title>
+ <tgroup cols='4'>
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Locations</entry>
<entry>for system</entry>
<entry>for users</entry>
+ <entry>Environment variable</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<entry><varname>RuntimeDirectory=</varname></entry>
<entry><filename>/run</filename></entry>
<entry><varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname></entry>
+ <entry><varname>$RUNTIME_DIRECTORY</varname></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>StateDirectory=</varname></entry>
<entry><filename>/var/lib</filename></entry>
<entry><varname>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</varname></entry>
+ <entry><varname>$STATE_DIRECTORY</varname></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>CacheDirectory=</varname></entry>
<entry><filename>/var/cache</filename></entry>
<entry><varname>$XDG_CACHE_HOME</varname></entry>
+ <entry><varname>$CACHE_DIRECTORY</varname></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>LogsDirectory=</varname></entry>
<entry><filename>/var/log</filename></entry>
<entry><varname>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</varname><filename>/log</filename></entry>
+ <entry><varname>$LOGS_DIRECTORY</varname></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><varname>ConfigurationDirectory=</varname></entry>
<entry><filename>/etc</filename></entry>
<entry><varname>$XDG_CONFIG_HOME</varname></entry>
+ <entry><varname>$CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY</varname></entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<filename>/run/foo/bar</filename>, and <filename>/run/baz</filename>. The directories
<filename>/run/foo/bar</filename> and <filename>/run/baz</filename> except <filename>/run/foo</filename> are
owned by the user and group specified in <varname>User=</varname> and <varname>Group=</varname>, and removed
- when the service is stopped.</para></listitem>
+ when the service is stopped.</para>
+
+ <para>Example: if a system service unit has the following,
+ <programlisting>RuntimeDirectory=foo/bar
+StateDirectory=aaa/bbb ccc</programlisting>
+ then the environment variable <literal>RUNTIME_DIRECTORY</literal> is set with <literal>/run/foo/bar</literal>, and
+ <literal>STATE_DIRECTORY</literal> is set with <literal>/var/lib/aaa/bbb:/var/lib/ccc</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>