Re: Linuxconf always wants to start gpm on exit

[Jacques Gelinas <jack solucorp qc ca>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Reiner Buehl wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> Is this a known behaviour (bug) or do I have to change something?
> The linuxconf version here is v1.14r4-4.

It is a bug in the redhat gpm packaging. Edit the file
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm and change the line

	# pidfile: /var/run/gpmpid

to 

	# pidfile: /var/run/gpm.pid

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Jacques Gelinas <jack solucorp qc ca>
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