[BRLTTY] 5.6

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Tue Apr 3 14:40:11 EDT 2018


You need a file in /etc/default called brltty and you should have
RUNBRLTTY=YES in that file -- you may already have it.  Then you can
change the /bin/brltty in that same line to your version.  This is
something Debian specific.  The file in /lib is the correct one for Debian.

On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:10:14 -0400,
Brian Tew wrote:
> 
> quoting Dave: 
> Look in /usr/lib/systemd/system for a file with a name like brltty.service. In it, look
> for a line that starts with ExecStart=. It's probably specifying /bin/brltty
> 
> (end of quote)
> 
> /usr/lib/systemd/system does not exist. /usr/lib/systemd does exist, but theres no system directory in it.
> 
> locate brltty.service done as root gives four listings;
> /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/brltty.service
> /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service
> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/brltty.service.dsh-also
> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sysinit.target.wants/brltty.service
> 
> but even though the locate command shows them root cannot see three  of them.
> When root tries to edit those files it says no such file or directory.
> Only the second one can be found by root.
> /lib/systemd/system/brltty.service
> that file is below. the execstart line is not so simple.
> 
> [Unit]
> 
> Description=Braille Device Support
> Documentation=man:brltty(1)
> Documentation=http://brltty.com/
> 
> DefaultDependencies=no
> Before=sysinit.target
> 
> RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/brltty
> 
> 
> [Service]
> 
> PIDFile=/run/brltty.pid
> ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "grep -sq '^ *RUN_BRLTTY=no' /etc/default/brltty || exec /sbin/brltty -P /run/brltty.pid"
> 
> TimeoutStartSec=5
> TimeoutStopSec=10
> 
> Restart=on-failure
> RestartSec=30
> 
> Nice=-10
> OOMScoreAdjust=-900
> 
> ProtectHome=read-only
> ProtectSystem=full
> SystemCallArchitectures=native
> 
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=sysinit.target
> 
> 
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