[systemd-devel] Can't make local user.conf work

[Kok, Auke-jan H]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:31 AM, G D'Arezzo <gdarrezzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 February 2016 at 19:05, Kok, Auke-jan H <auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:26 PM, G D'Arezzo <gdarrezzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> "You probably want to use [Service] instead."
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestion, Auke.  Unfortunately, Service and
>>> DefaultEnvironment don't go together:
>>>
>>> [/home/temp/.config/systemd/user/test.service.d/user.conf:2] Unknown
>>> lvalue 'DefaultEnvironment' in section 'Service'
>>
>> I just reread the man page for that. DefaultEnvironment is valid only
>> for user.conf, not any conf.d* file associated with a specific unit
>> (obviously, since those are not variants of "user.conf", but instead
>> are variants of unit files).
>>
>> The [Manager] section is only valid in:
>>
>>        /etc/systemd/user.conf, /etc/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf,
>> /run/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf,
>>        /usr/lib/systemd/user.conf.d/*.conf
>>
>> The manual page systemd-user.conf(5) does not mention at all being
>> able to use ~/.config/systemd/. This seems like a shortcoming to me,
>> though.
>>
>> Auke
>
>
> Is this a feature which never happened or should it work?

I'm fairly sure it just never happened.

Auke