Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 03:58:05PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Place this in in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local to activate Numlock for the
> > first six terminals:
> >
> > echo "Activating Numlock ..."
> > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do
> > /usr/bin/setleds +num < /dev/tty${i} > /dev/null
> > done
>
> Karsten,
>
> Thanks, I have written this into /etc/rc.local which I created as there
> was not a file of this name.
>
> However, it has made no change and I did not see the echo message so the
> file is maybe not being read.
Debian doesn't use /etc/rc.local or anything like that. I'd recommend
using a file in /etc/init.d, say /etc/init.d/numlock-off, and then using
'update-rc.d numlock-off start 99 S .' to have it run when you boot.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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