+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Unit Load Path</title>
+
+ <para>Unit files are loaded from a set of paths
+ determined during compilation, described in the two
+ tables below. Unit files found in directories listed
+ earlier override files with the same name in
+ directories lower in the list.</para>
+
+ <para>When systemd is running in user mode
+ (<option>--user</option>) and the variable
+ <varname>$SYSTEMD_UNIT_PATH</varname> is set, this
+ contents of this variable overrides the unit load
+ path.
+ </para>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>
+ Load path when running in system mode (<option>--system</option>).
+ </title>
+
+ <tgroup cols='2'>
+ <colspec colname='path' />
+ <colspec colname='expl' />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Path</entry>
+ <entry>Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/etc/systemd/system</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Local configuration</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/run/systemd/system</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Runtime units</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Units of installed packages</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <table>
+ <title>
+ Load path when running in user mode (<option>--user</option>).
+ </title>
+
+ <tgroup cols='2'>
+ <colspec colname='path' />
+ <colspec colname='expl' />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry>Path</entry>
+ <entry>Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>$HOME/.config/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>User configuration</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/etc/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Local configuration</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/run/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Runtime units</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Units of installed packages</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <para>Additional units might be loaded into systemd
+ ("linked") from directories not on the unit load
+ path. See the <command>link</command> command for
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. Also,
+ some units are dynamically created via generators
+ <ulink
+ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Generators/">Generators</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+