[BRLTTY] Modifying systemd units.

[Aura Kelloniemi]

On 2022-03-16 at 16:40 -0400, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
 > There was a post, recently, showing how to resolve a problem by modifying brltty's path unit. It showed how to do it by directly editing the brtty.path unit file. While it isn't wrong to want to modify a systemd unit file, directly editing that file is the wrong way to do it. For one thing, the next update of that file, perhaps by upgrading the package, will lose the change. So what's the right way?

 > What you should do is create a unit override file. You do this by first
 > creating the unit's override directory. It has the same name as the unit
 > file, but with .d appended to it. For example, the override directory for
 > brltty.path is brltty.path.d/. Within this directory, you an have as many
 > override files as you wish - just make sure that you give their names the
 > .conf extension.

The easy way to do all this is

$ systemctl edit <unit-file-name>

e.g.
$ systemctl edit brltty.path

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Aura