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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]