Re: [gpsd-users] Is GPSD receiving PPS?

[Alexander Carver]

On 2016-03-04 11:04, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 02:57:22 -0600
> "Jon Brase" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> (The port change there is because Raspbian uses systemd, whose init
>> seems to "helpfully" grab ports daemons started in boot scripts and
>> pass traffic on those ports through to the process. If the process
>> dies or the service is stopped, init doesn't let go of the port. So
>> if I shutdown the boot-time daemon to run gpsd in a terminal for
>> debugging, I have to start it on a different port).
> 
> Anothre reason to shoot systemd in the head.  I hope someone finds a
> better workaraound.

There is.  The use of systemd is a default in Jessie but not (usually)
mandatory.  You can install alternatives such as the sysvinit-core
package which restores the previous SysV init system or a couple
alternatives such as runit.

There's documentation for it here:

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation

(sorry word wrap)

I say not usually mandatory because it should mostly work however some
software package maintainers have unhelpfully added systemd as a
mandatory prerequisite without accepting other alternatives thus
removing systemd can potentially break other programs.  It all depends
on the use case of the machine.