Re: easy numlock question

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, > it ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:2

RE: easy numlock question

> no, this utility only works on the current VT which is probably tty1 > for the boot process. if you really insist on pushing this on all Works just fine on my potato! Got all 6 terminals with numlock set! > your users the place to put the mentions shell commands is > /etc/profile. > > however

Re: easy numlock question

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > however i would argue that numlock status is a USER preference and > thus should be left to individual users to place in thier > ~/.bash_profile if they desire this. As an aside in this thread: I noticed that at least acroread worked not as expected (A

Re: easy numlock question

> well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds > > i did notice that the rest of the entries i

Re: easy numlock question

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:35:55AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > I haven't read everything Debian yet, but wouldn't you want to save the > above scripts as something more like /etc/init.d/setleds, then: > > #chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/setleds > #ln -s /etc/init.d/setleds /etc/rc2.d/S20setleds

Re: easy numlock question

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:29:43PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27

Re: easy numlock question

Mark Simos said: > well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it > ain't running > at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) > > the file is as follows: > -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds > > i did notice that the rest

Re: easy numlock question

well, leaving it in the rc2.d directory as per the initial suggestion, it ain't running at boot time . i am a little new to *nix, so bear with me :) the file is as follows: -rwxr-xr-x1 rootroot 82 Aug 29 18:27 s20setleds i did notice that the rest of the entries in the dir are li

Re: easy numlock question

> > The next script will turn numlock on for the first six consoles. > > > > #!/bin/sh > > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] > > for tty in $INITTY; do > > setleds -D +num < $tty > > done > > > > When you save it as /etc/rc2.d/S20setleds numlock will be set at > > the system > > startup. > > I haven't read eve

RE: easy numlock question

> The next script will turn numlock on for the first six consoles. > > #!/bin/sh > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-6] > for tty in $INITTY; do > setleds -D +num < $tty > done > > When you save it as /etc/rc2.d/S20setleds numlock will be set at > the system > startup. I haven't read everything Debian yet, but wo

Re: easy numlock question

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? You can set mumlock to on with the "setleds" command, see man setleds for more information. The next script will turn numlock on for the first six consoles. #!/bin/sh INITTY=/de

Re: easy numlock question

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:48:09PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > > is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? > > Configure this in your system BIOS. that does not work with GNU/Linux, the kernel loads its own keyb

Re: easy numlock question

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Mark Simos wrote: > is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? Configure this in your system BIOS. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of

Re: easy numlock question

Assuming that you're logging in to a VT, rather than to XDM or the equivalent, add the following to ~/.bash_profile: case `basename \`tty\`` in tty[1-9]) setleds +num;; esac If you're trying to set it for X11 instead, go to and do a search for "numlockx".

easy numlock question

is there any way to make numlock on at boot every time? -- Mark Anthony Simos, MCSE Poet, Playwright, Swing Dancer