Re: Installing 3.20 gpsd from source on Raspberry Pi cards old and new.

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

On 6/15/2020 13:20 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Paul!
>
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:58:48 -0700
> Paul Theodoropoulos via <gpsd-users@nongnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Purely an academic exercise, since the size of a startup file is
> > about as meaningful as uptime boasts, this is the shortest functional
> > startup file I could create, three lines:
> Academic?  Simplicity is academic?

Well, if simplicity is the only goal, then just delete gpsd, and put

server 0.pool.ntp.org

in your ntp.conf and walk away. I don't care.

> > [Service]
> > Type=forking
> > ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/gpsd -n -r -P /run/gpsd.pid /dev/gpsd0
> I assume other incantations required to make that work.
You assume incorrectly. That is a fully functional gpsd.service file.

>   I assume another
> one is required for ntpd?
Why yes, a separate daemon gets a separate startup file. So what?

> Adding that to the doc, with explanations, would be useful to some.

I said it was an academic exercise, since you're boasting about how 
awesome your tiny startup files are.

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Paul Theodoropoulos
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