Re: [gpsd-users] Issue with Rasbian Jessie

[Jon Brase]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:41:13 -0600, David J Taylor  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Jon,
>
> Thanks for that.  When I tried to execute the command I got:
>
> "Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory"
>
> David

Oops. I had done quite a bit of Google searching and trying different  
things with no success before I got to that point. I forgot that  
/etc/systemd/system/gpsd.service had been copied from  
/lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service.

To my understanding, the file in /lib/ is overwritten with package  
updates, the file in /etc/ overrides the file in /lib/ and can be used for  
custom configuration without risk of being overwritten.

You may also need to make changes to the file after you copy it. I have  
the lines regarding gpsd.socket commented out, and the following line  
added under the [Install] section:

WantedBy=multi-user.target

I'm not sure of the degree to which any of these changes are actually  
necessary, I made them while searching for a solution and they had no  
immediate effect until I ran the systemctl link command. Whether they had  
any effect at all, or whether linking a copy of the unchanged copied file  
would have worked, I'm not sure of.

--
Jon Brase