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authorChris Atkinson <christopher.william.atkinson@gmail.com>2015-12-17 22:41:59 -0500
committerChris Atkinson <christopher.william.atkinson@gmail.com>2016-01-21 17:21:46 -0500
commit0cf4c0d1414a0110d420e7b4b1c2f645be811738 (patch)
tree2a82fc86970e29e71acfd8b0cb9bc91d86237282
parent326092991934fe3a02921d1e1278073a5b677dcc (diff)
man: describe precedence of drop-in .conf files over unit files
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diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 5b12378eda..9b7013e0ce 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -191,6 +191,17 @@
<literal>.d/</literal> subdirectory and reads its
<literal>.conf</literal> files.</para>
+ <para>In addition to <filename>/etc/systemd/system</filename>,
+ the drop-in <literal>.conf</literal> files for system services
+ can be placed in <filename>/usr/lib/systemd/system</filename> or
+ <filename>/run/systemd/system</filename> directories. Drop-in
+ files in <filename>/etc</filename> take precedence over those in
+ <filename>/run</filename> which in turn take precedence over
+ those in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. Drop-in files under any of
+ these directories take precedence over unit files wherever located.
+ (Of course, since <filename>/run</filename> is temporary and
+ <filename>/usr/lib</filename> is for vendors, it is unlikely
+ drop-ins should be used in either of those places.)</para>
<!-- Note that we do not document .include here, as we
consider it mostly obsolete, and want people to
use .d/ drop-ins instead. -->
@@ -1402,6 +1413,7 @@ PrivateTmp=yes</programlisting>
cannot be reset to an empty list, so dependencies can only be
added in drop-ins. If you want to remove dependencies, you have
to override the entire unit.</para>
+
</example>
</refsect1>