</refsect1>
<refsect1>
- <title>Unit load path</title>
+ <title>Unit Load Path</title>
<para>Unit files are loaded from a set of paths
determined during compilation, described in the two
lower in the hierarchy, thus allowing overrides.
</para>
- <para>When systemd is running in session mode
+ <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
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><filename>/run/systemd/generator.early</filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>&SYSTEM_CONFIG_UNIT_PATH;</filename></entry>
- <entry morerows='1'>Local configuration</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (early)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/etc/systemd/system</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Local configuration</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/run/systemd/systemd</filename></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/run/systemd/generator</filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (middle)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/usr/local/lib/systemd/system</filename></entry>
<entry>Units for local packages</entry>
</row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>&systemunitdir;</filename></entry>
- <entry>Systemd package configuration</entry>
- </row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system</filename></entry>
- <entry morerows='1'>Units for installed packages</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>/lib/systemd/system</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Units for installed packages</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/run/systemd/generator.late</filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (late)</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry><filename>/tmp/systemd-generator.early.<replaceable>XXXXXX</replaceable></filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>&USER_CONFIG_UNIT_PATH;</filename></entry>
- <entry morerows='1'>Local configuration</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (early)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/etc/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Local configuration</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/run/systemd/user</filename></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/tmp/systemd-generator.<replaceable>XXXXXX</replaceable></filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (middle)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/usr/local/lib/systemd/user</filename></entry>
- <entry morerows='1'>Units for local packages</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>/usr/local/share/systemd/user</filename></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>&userunitdir;</filename></entry>
- <entry>Systemd package configuration</entry>
+ <entry>Units for local packages</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/usr/lib/systemd/user</filename></entry>
- <entry morerows='1'>Units for installed packages</entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><filename>/usr/share/systemd/user</filename></entry>
+ <entry>Units for installed packages</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><filename>/tmp/systemd-generator.late.<replaceable>XXXXXX</replaceable></filename></entry>
- <entry>Generated units</entry>
+ <entry>Generated units (late)</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
- <para>Note: the paths listed above are set at
- compilation time and differ between distributions. The
- "authoritative" list is printed by
- <command>systemd</command> at during start and daemon
- reconfiguration.</para>
-
<para>Additional units might be loaded into systemd
("linked") from directories not on the unit load
path. See the <command>link</command> command for