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NAME
gpsdctl - tool for sending commands to gpsd over its control socket
SYNOPSIS
gpsdctl action device
OPTIONS
action
may be add or remove. If no daemon instance
is running when an add is requested, this program will launch
one.
device
argument should be the pathname of a device. The device
will be opened by gpsd to read sensor data.
DESCRIPTION
This is a tool for sending an instance of gpsd commands over its control socket to add or remove devices from the daemon’s device list. It is not intended to be called by users, but rather by the Linux hotplug system and similar facilities.
ENVIRONMENT
Two environment variables are interpreted.
GPSD_SOCKET
sets the location of the control socket. If the effective
user ID of this program is root then it usually defaults to
/run/gpsd.sock, although some systems may use the deprecated
/var/run/gpsd.sock instead. Non-root users will use
/tmp/gpsd.sock.
GPSD_OPTIONS
may be a list of options to be passed to gpsd when this
tool launches it. It defaults to an empty string.
RETURN VALUES
0
on success.
1
if the action was unknown or the write to the control
socket failed,
SEE ALSO
gpsd(8), gpsctl(1), gps(1), libgps(3), libgpsmm(3), gpsprof(1), gpsfake(1).
RESOURCES
Project web site: <https://gpsd.io/>
COPYING
This file is Copyright 2013 by the GPSD project
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-clause
AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond
| 2026-10-09 | GPSD, Version 3.27.5 |