Please if you have time just skim this message and maybe you can show off your knowledge :)
1) Is there a way to turn on Numlock by default, or better yet, to prevent it from being turned off? My BIOS sets Numlock to ON when I boot, but when I load the kernel (with lilo) it turns numlock off. :( Is there a way to make it leave it on, or to turn it back on on all my Virtual TTYs? (I've put the setleds command in /etc/init.d/ but that only effects the first Virtual Console, even when I set the 'defaults') 2) Currently I have 6 Virtual Console lines in my inittab, but I've heard that there's a way to only have one of those lines, and to be able to create Virtual Consoles on demand by pressing Alt-Uparrow or something. Is there a way to do this? It seems kind of pointless to have six gettys running when I'm only using 2, and it's a pain when I am using up all 6 VCs and need more. 3) Speaking of Alt-Uparrow, is this the same thing as 'kbrequest' in inittab, and why doesn't either of them work? Is there a way I can bind keys to make initd do commands? 4) Is there a way to disable the Visual-Bell? A lot of my programs (like less) have options to turn off the bell, but they say "If your console has a Visual Bell, it will be used instead." Well that stupid flashing is even more annoying than the bell I'm trying to get rid of! :) Is there a way to disable the Visual Bell? 5) I just installed shadow-login_960810, shadow-passwd_960810, and shadow-su_960810 on my system. Everything works fine, but I was wondering if there was any way to customize 'login'. For one, if you have a 'login incorrect' (coz of misspelt names or wrong passwords or wahtever) it take about 3 very annoying seconds to retry. Is there a way to make it ask for a new login: immediately instead of waiting? I'm guessing that the pause is a 'feature' to deter password guessers from breaking in, but I think it's just annoying and would rather have it turned off. 6) Another login question: my host name is res154002.wsu.edu because I'm living in a dorm, and whenever I get the login prompt it always says "res154002 login:". Well, I know this is just being picky, but is there a way to make it not say res154002? It looks really tacky. I'd rather it just say "login:". Is there a place where I can get the source for a 'login' with shadow capability so I can just edit all these options in a config.h or something? Ok, well that's all the questions I can think of for now... I've asked other questions on this list and have gotten friendly responses - thanks! I've gotten all my modules in a basket and am using zsh now :) Oh, and a note to people thinking of converting shells: if you switch to zsh and think of switching your /bin/sh link to zsh instead of bash, you'll get a bunch of errors when running /etc/init.d/rc, so don't do it! hehe, I had that problem today and got a bunch of "/etc/init.d/rc: no such file or directory" errors or something like that... Later Gators!
