I decided to create a bug for this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30206 On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:39 AM Nils Kattenbeck <nilskemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > I know that preset-all is run by the manager at startup if it is the > first boot. However, this does not seem to be run for user units (i.e. > systemctl --global preset-all). > Based on my findings the presetting is run very early and hooking in a > new service file with WantedBy/Before does not seem possible (and > would also require a daemon-reload). > Is there any other method of how to preset these files at boot? Is > this not done on purpose or has the need for this never come up? > > Thanks for the help. > Greetings, Nils