Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

How does systemd search for units?

Today I spent too many hours figuring out what is wrong with my systemd which was refusing to find units in .config/systemd/user.

The symptoms were:

  • systemd-analyze --user verify worked

  • I was 100% sure the unit file physically was there

  • The whole $HOME directory and .config/systemd mounted on another distro also worked

I really wish someone posted this earlier so I am here, doing the thing.