gpsd always runs in 'non-daemonised' or not at all

[wadda]

The systemd unit file

/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service

starts gpsd with the '-N' flag for a non-daemonised instance.

Removing the flag prevents systemd from calling the gpsd at all.

The service needs the removal of the '-N' flag so the gpsd can fully function, and insertion of 'Type=forking' to enable it to read its own configuration file '/etc/default/gpsd'

Attached is a patch, if I've done it correctly.

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[Bernd Zeimetz (bzed)]

Your description is wrong - systemd happily handles a running gpsd in fireground mode.
Also /etc/default/gpsd is not read by gpsd, but by systemd and the options are passed to gpsd.

Whatever the problem is you are having, your change is not the fix for it.

Please not that gpsd - by default - will not start automatically. Its start is triggered by systemd socket activation. You'll have to add an appropriate systemd config file if you want to change that - for example if you need to have systemd running at system boot.

[wadda (a-moe)]

On Fri, 13 May 2016 10:15:01 -0000
Bernd Zeimetz <email address hidden> wrote:

> systemd happily handles a running gpsd in fireground mode.

Sure, the -N flag is to run gpsd in the foregound.

But if you want gpsd to run as a daemon, it cannot with the current configuration.

If you remove the -N flag it will not function at all.

Moreover, modifications to the "EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/gpsd are never read.

Try it. Modify the options, change the device....nothing.

Make the change to the unit file, *that is consistent* with dealing with unix style daemons, such as gpsd, and all these problems go away.

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Moe <email address hidden>

[wadda (a-moe)]

I'll back-peddle on the EnvironmentFile. I reverted the unit file and voila. Modification in /etc/default/gpsd manifest. It will go down as mystery.

The running in foreground, or not at all still hold.

[Bernd Zeimetz (bzed)]

> The running in foreground, or not at all still hold.

-N works perfectly well, systemd was made exactly for that.
Youll still have to figure out what else is wrong.

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