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<refentry id="systemd-delta"
compare configuration files that override other configuration
files. Files in <filename>/etc</filename> have highest priority,
files in <filename>/run</filename> have the second highest
- priority, ..., files in <filename>/lib</filename> have lowest
+ priority, …, files in <filename>/usr/lib</filename> have lowest
priority. Files in a directory with higher priority override files
with the same name in directories of lower priority. In addition,
certain configuration files can have <literal>.d</literal>
directories which contain "drop-in" files with configuration
snippets which augment the main configuration file. "Drop-in"
files can be overridden in the same way by placing files with the
- same name in a directory of higher priority (except that in case
+ same name in a directory of higher priority (except that, in case
of "drop-in" files, both the "drop-in" file name and the name of
the containing directory, which corresponds to the name of the
main configuration file, must match). For a fuller explanation,
suffix. Either is optional. The prefix must be one of the
directories containing configuration files
(<filename>/etc</filename>, <filename>/run</filename>,
- <filename>/usr/lib</filename>, ...). If it is given, only
+ <filename>/usr/lib</filename>, …). If it is given, only
overriding files contained in this directory will be shown.
Otherwise, all overriding files will be shown. The suffix must be
a name of a subdirectory containing configuration files like