Here are my .path and .service files: $ *cat /etc/systemd/system/trigg.path * [Path] DirectoryNotEmpty=/root/trigger MakeDirectory=true
$ *cat /etc/systemd/system/trigg.service * [Unit] Description=Trigger Service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/touch /root/wastriggered Type=oneshot Now, after robooting, I would have expected that /root/trigger would exist; it does not. And, of course, creating it manually and touching a file in there does not trigger the path. What am I missing? I have successfully used .path units in the past, and what I'm doing here looks right; unfortunately I do not have access to those old machines any more (previous employer). This is all on a fully-patched Ubuntu 20.04LTS machine: $ systemd --version systemd 245 (245.4-4ubuntu3.15) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
