Re: Linuxconf always wants to start gpm on exit

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 10:43:44AM +0200, Reiner Buehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following problem with linuxconf on two Redhat 6.0 
> systems:
> 
> Everytime I exit linuxconf I get a message that things are to 
> be done no matter if I changed something or not. The list of
> things to do always consists of "/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S85gpm start".
> If I look at the running processes, gpm is already running. 
> This happens even if I start linuxconf, quit it without touching
> a thing. 

There is a bug in /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm.  On line 9, the file
/var/run/gpmpid needs to be /var/run/gpm.pid

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Steve Borho