Comparison between 2 services for gpm.

[lidgnulinux]

Hello, I want to run gpm service and I got reference from alpine and gentoo, it's really simple like this :

pidfile=/var/run/gpm.pid
command=/usr/sbin/gpm
command_args=${gpm_opts:--m /dev/input/mice -t imps2}

depend() {
	after localmount
	use hotplug logger
}

Unfortunately, that service above don't work so I wrote my own gpm service like this and it works :

#!/sbin/openrc-run

pidfile="/var/run/gpm.pid"
command=/usr/sbin/gpm
command_args=${gpm_opts:--m /dev/input/mice -t imps2}

depend() {
	after localmount
	use hotplug logger
}

start() {
	${command} ${command_args}
}

stop() {
	${command} -k 
}

reload() {
  echo "Restarting gpm..."
  /usr/sbin/gpm -k
  sleep 1
  /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
}

Why does that happen? Thanks.

[navi-desu]

the default start() and stop() implementations are defined in sh/openrc-run.sh.in (in repo) or /usr/libexec/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh (merged)

why they're not working, i'm not sure -- try running the broken one with rc-service gpm -d start, it should print out logging -- see if something is failing to start, could be start-stop-daemon (feel free to paste the log here and i'll take a look)

[lidgnulinux]

Thanks for replying, here the log I got : https://bpa.st/UZ3A

[lidgnulinux]

Just in case the link will be expired : gpm-log.txt

[navi-desu]

start-stop-daemon seem to run without issue, what happens to the process?

migrating this to supervise-daemon might help

[lidgnulinux]

I tried to add command_background="YES" and it works, but I can't stop the service (the service is still running in the background).

[navi-desu]

does gpm auto-background itself, or does it stay in the foreground?

what error are you getting when stopping it?

and please try with supervisor=supervise-daemon