friendsd2(1)

friendsd21

Displays gps position on a map

Usage

friendsd2 [options]

About this manual page

This manual page explain the basic functions of Friendsd2 for GpsDrive and some additional info.

Overview

Friendsd2 is a central daemon which takes UDP packets from gpsdrive clients and stores them. Later he sends them back to all the connecte gpsd-client so they can show all the Geo-Locations of all other users connected to this friendsd. One central friendsd is running at friends.gpsdrive.de.

Warranty

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–6.0

Bugs

The current friendsd can only hold a limited number of users, since he sends only one UDP packet to the client for response.

Author

Fritz Ganter
http://www.gpsdrive.de

From gpsdrive 2.10~pre4-6.dfsg-5+b2 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.