Re: gpsd.socket file reverts to default

[Dan Williams]

FYI, for the curious, here's the diff between the source-generated systemd service file, compared to the version installed from 'apt-get' on Ubuntu 16.04  (the 20.04 version matches the source-generated version much more closely)

> $ sdiff -Wbl systemd/gpsd.service /lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service
> [Unit]                                                                                                            (
> Description=GPS (Global Positioning System) Daemon                             (
> Requires=gpsd.socket                                                                                 (

> # Needed with chrony SOCK refclock                                                         (
> After=chronyd.service                                                                                  (
>                                                                                                                      (
> [Service]                                                                                                       (
> Type=forking                                                                                                <
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/gpsd                                                             (
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/gpsd                                                          | ExecStart=/usr/sbin/gpsd -N $GPSD_OPTIONS $DEVICES
> ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/gpsd $GPSD_OPTIONS $OPTIONS $DEVICE  <
>                                                                                                                      (
> [Install]                                                                                                          (

> WantedBy=multi-user.target                                                                         (
> Also=gpsd.socket                                                                                         (

( gpsd.socket differs only by comments )

Daniel Williams  |  Software Engineer

dwilliams@nextdroid.com

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 11:44 AM Dan Williams <dwilliams@nextdroid.com> wrote:

> False. Version 3.11, 2014-07-23, 'Full systemd support' see NEWS.
> Also see gpsd/systemd directory of the distribution, and the assorted
> tests for it during build.

Is this what the "systemd=yes" build flag does?  (I was wondering about that...)

Daniel Williams  |  Software Engineer

dwilliams@nextdroid.com

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:47 PM Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:

Yo Paul!

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:40:55 -0700
Paul Theodoropoulos via <gpsd-users@nongnu.org> wrote:

> On 6/5/2020 14:59 PM, Frank Nicholas wrote:
> > Everything you describe and the problem you are having is specific
> > to systemd and your Linux distribution.  The GPSd project does not
> > ship anything for managing GPSd from systemd. 
>
> False. Version 3.11, 2014-07-23, 'Full systemd support' see NEWS.
> Also see gpsd/systemd directory of the distribution, and the assorted
> tests for it during build.

Which differs from what Ubuntu ships.

RGDS
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