GPM Init Script Does Not Use GPMOPTS Correctly

[Michael Nooner]

The boot script improperly quotes $GPMOPTS when passing it to the gpm program. This has the effect of sending several options to the program as one string. To reproduce this error:

1. The example below uses an option to switch the middle button's functionality with right mouse button (useful with touch pads) by editing /etc/sysconfig/mouse file to this:

# Begin /etc/sysconfig/mouse

MDEVICE="/dev/input/mice"
PROTOCOL="imps2"
GPMOPTS="-B 132"

# End /etc/sysconfig/mouse

2. Now try restarting the gpm service you will see it fails.

If you examine line 43 of /etc/init.d/gpm you will see that $GPMOPTS is quoted when it should not be. To fix this you can use this sed script to strip the quotes:

$ sed -i 's/"\(${GPMOPTS}\)"/\1/g' /etc/init.d/gpm

Note this fix works even if $GPMOPTS is an empty string (like the examples shown in the book).

[bdubbs@…]

You are right. I'll delete the quotes at the next update.

[bdubbs@…]

Fixed at in revision 9745.

[bdubbs@…]

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