GPSDCTL(8)                    GPSD Documentation                    GPSDCTL(8)

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

GPSD, Version 3.25                2023-01-10                        GPSDCTL(8)