bug#375: gpm pidfiles

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> Fri, 2 May 2003 01:26:08 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Package: gpm
Severity: wishlist

If gpm dies on start-up, it leaves a pidfile behind which prevents you
from starting it again until you do gpm -k.  gpm -k complains that the
pidfile is stale, and removes it!

-- 
Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
     http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/   | being programmed by others.
     http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/     |     -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
                                       |        464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)