Re: systemd and GPSD issue

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Charles!

Sorry.  I missed your point?

Also, withot knowing your systemd(umb) configuration, no results
are quantifiable.

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:18:31 -0600
Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:18:46 -0700
> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yo Charles!
> > 
> > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:46:18 -0600
> > Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:  
> 
> …
> 
> > > If you plug a GPS receiver in to your system, systemd will launch
> > > an instance of gpsd.    
> > 
> > Uh, not by default.  By default most distros wait for a gpsd client
> > before launching gpsd.  
> 
> Interesting. I just did the experiment. I made sure that gpsd was not
> running:
> 
> root@jhegaala:~# ps aux | grep -i gps
> root      767310  0.0  0.0   6240   644 pts/4    S+   22:03   0:00
> grep --colour=auto -i gps root@jhegaala:~#
> 
> 
> I then plugged my GPS receiver in, and checked again:
> 
> root@jhegaala:~# ps aux | grep -i gps
> gpsd      767329  0.0  0.0   9156  2468 ?        S<s  22:04   0:00
> /usr/sbin/gpsd -G root      767332  0.0  0.0   6240   716 pts/4    S+
>   22:04   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i gps root@jhegaala:~# 
> 
> This on Debian 11, gpsd 3.22-4.
> 
> I then unplugged the receiver, and shut gpsd down. I then launched a
> gpsd client. gpsd and the client both ran, although the client didn't
> showing anything useful. I then plugged the receiver back in. The
> client started to show useful data.
> 




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