Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbie #61

["Ian Balchin" <fables@imaginet.co.za>]

Colin,

I _really_ am a newbie!  Following on from the comment by Bob 
Hilliard, I am running in console mode.

For the file 'numlock-off' do I put in the same script that Karsten 
gave me for rc.local?

Where do I put the update line?

To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first 
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people 
want it on anyway?

Thanks
Ian

Talking about Re: get leds on after bootup. Newbi, you last wrote.....

> 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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