On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:07:00 -0700
"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:
Yo Charles!
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:19:35 -0600
Charles Curley <address@hidden> wrote:
I have the Debian packaged gpsd (version 3.17-7 [Yes, I know:
ancient]) on Debian 10 (buster). It runs just fine and dandy,
Modulo a bunch of CVE...
except
I cannot access it from another computer. I have:
Uh, oh.
* Opened the firewall to allow packets in on gpsd's port, 2947.
Firewall logging reports no hits on that port.
How did you verify that? Did you try an nmap remotely?
nmap -p 2947 xx.xx.xx.xx.
root@orca:~# nmap -p 2947 hawk
Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-09-18 17:57 MDT
Nmap scan report for hawk (192.168.100.6)
Host is up (0.0013s latency).
rDNS record for 192.168.100.6: hawk.localdomain
PORT STATE SERVICE
2947/tcp closed gpsd
MAC Address: 30:5A:3A:81:83:79 (Asustek Computer)
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.60 seconds
root@orca:~#
However, syslog on hawk does not show any packets hitting the firewall.
Did you look at netstat?
netstat -apn | fgrep gpsd
root@hawk:/home/charles/versioned/gpsd# netstat -apn | fgrep gpsd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:2947 127.0.0.1:56042 ESTABLISHED
16423/gpsd
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8442447 1/init
/var/run/gpsd.sock
unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 8597869 16423/gpsd
root@hawk:/home/charles/versioned/gpsd#
* Copied gpsd.socket to /etc/systemd/system, and edited it to allow
access from all interfaces:
Oh. Then you realize you are not running gpsd, you are running
systemd which is hijacking port 2947...
gpsd is running. I have a receiver running, and I get reports on
multiple clients.
I'll bet you have a systemd problem. Have you tried without
systemdumb?
Good luck getting rid of systemd on Debian. Like kudzu or bureaucracy,
it takes over everything. I need to hornswaggle it into doing what I
want.
* Edited /etc/default/gpsd to include the -G option:
And why not the "-n" option?
Possibly because I didn't see that it was relevant to the matter at
hand? I already have multiple clients on hawk getting data from gpsd.
In any case when I add the n option ("-Gn"), it shows up in ps's
output, but still no joy. Nmap still reports the port closed.
My clients find gpsd and the gps receiver on the local host, hawk.
On another computer, I cannot get to gpsd on hawk. Ping works.
Telnet reports that it is unable to connect. Xgps on the other
computer reports, "gpsd is not running."
What am I doing wrong?
You are running systemdumb. Try the above 3 things and see what you
see.
RGDS
GARY
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