Package: gpm
Version: 1.19.6-25
Severity: wishlist
In servers, that do not contain X, the gpm is very handy. However, the
gpm process does not need to be started at boot to consume memory at
low mem systems (I have 64M; NFS server). The sysadm can start it
manually when he logs in.
I suggest to use similar approach as with other daemons:
1. Add /etc/default/gpm with one entry:
ENABLED="yes" # or no
2. /etc/init.d/gpm sources this configuration file (pseudo code):
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
...
ENABLED="yes" # set default value
[ -f /etc/default/gpm ] && . /etc/default/gpm
fi [ ! "$ENABLED" = "yes" ]; then
log_warning_msg "gpm is disabled by /etc/default/gpm directive
(ENABLED=\"$ENABLED\")"
exit 0
fi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gpm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.25.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii ucf 3.003 Update Configuration File: preserv
gpm recommends no packages.
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