Systemd Drop In

At work, I was debugging an issue where it was failing to update the systemd configuration to the new installation path. By default, systemd service definitions go under /etc/systemd/system/name.service. There are cases where you as an administrator have no control over the service generated. So how do you override a service configuration without overriding the original service or the service definition from scratch? Systemd has a functionality called drop-in units where you can write parts of the service definition and it will override it. Read more