GPM acts funny

["Larry Alkoff" <labradley@mindspring.com>]

Forgive me for posting this on two lists but there seems
to be a lot more activity in debian-users.
I'm using Libranet 2.7 and have a strange problem.

I can start and stop gpm from the command line with
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2  
and  gpm -k

However when I try to start and stop gpm from /etc/init.d
using /etc/init.d/gpm start or stop as root,
the gpm program hangs up until I move the mouse.
Then it reports:

init.d/gpm:  /dev/mouse:  Permission denied
Starting mouse interface server: gpm.

It then works.

Similarly when I boot up or shut down - it hangs in exactly the same way.

In /dev mouse is soft linked to /dev/psaux with permission crw------- with owner root.

In /etc/init.d/gpm I added to the cmdln as follows:
cmdln=-m  /dev/mouse  -t  imps2
which is the same as I use with no problems in the command line.

Any ideas on what's going on?

Thanks for any help.
Larry




Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX