[Om2008.9] power on GPS

Wed Oct 29 12:02:10 CET 2008

Matthias Apitz a écrit :
> El día Wednesday, October 29, 2008 a las 09:43:42AM +0000, Alastair Johnson escribió:
>>> /etc/init.d/gpsd is a fair place to do it, but it may be overwritten if 
>> you update the gpsd package. I used to use a pair of scripts to start 
>> and stop bluetooth under 2007.2 but they should still work. You could 
>> always combine them with a check on the current power state to make it 
>> toggle, which would be better if you want to add a .desktop file.
> 	...
>> There is a bug in the script /etc/init.d/gpsd: When it wants to stop the
> gpsd daemon it uses:
>> 	killall gpsd
>> which kills the daemon and the script itself:
>> # /etc/init.d/gpsd stop
> Shutting down gpsd: Terminated
>> I have renamed this script to /etc/init.d/gpsd.sh and now it works fine
> and as well powers down the card writing 0 into the device file;
>> 	matthias

Hi,
TIMTOWTDI :)
instead of
 killall gpsd
There are lots of better solutions :
 pkill -x -o gpsd
Or,
 pgrep -x gpsd | grep -v "$$" | xargs -r kill
Or, more standard I think :
 kill `pidof -x -o %PPID "gpsd"`
Or even simpler,
 kill `pidof gpsd`
since, by default, pidof ignores scripts.
-- 
Christophe Badoit