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On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jc García <jyo.garcia@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2014-06-20 9:06 GMT-06:00 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>: |
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>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 4:06 AM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> Hi. I want to turn numlock automatically, but I am using systemd and I |
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>>> am having troubles doing this. At someones suggestion in a previous |
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>>> message (I think Canek's) I created |
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>>> /etc/systemd/system/getty@service.d/numlock.conf with the following |
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>>> contents |
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>>> |
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>>> [Service] |
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>>> ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/setleds -D -num </dev/%I |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> However, setleds dies with the following error: |
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>>> Jun 19 14:24:55 ccs.covici.com setleds[4878]: KDGKBLED: Inappropriate |
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>>> ioctl for device |
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>>> Jun 19 14:24:55 ccs.covici.com setleds[4878]: Error reading current |
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>>> flags setting. Maybe you are not on the console? |
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>>> |
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>>> I tried to fool with chvt to make the console current, but no joy there. |
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>>> |
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>>> Any assistance would be appreciated. |
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>> |
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> This has called my attention as it would be nice to activate numlock |
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> by default on console(altought not that important for me anyway ) |
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>> Could you post the exact invocation for setleds? It should be on the |
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>> logs. I think the invocation for setleds shuld be: |
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>> /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < /dev/%i |
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> I have tried this but after skimming trough the manpage |
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> systemd.service(5), I've found this command will not work, as a |
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> parameter for any of ExecStart* since redirection and pipes(these are |
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> mentioned << < | > >> ) are not supported. |
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> I'd like to mention also that not executing setleds as follows, with |
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> '-' before the binary path : |
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> ExecStartPost=-/usr/bin/setleds -D -num </dev/%i |
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> breaks the start of the whole getty service, making it unable to login |
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> in into any console |
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> The way to work around this recommended in the manual is instead |
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> invoking a shell and make it run the commands: |
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> ExecStartPost=-/bin/sh -c 'setleds -D +num < /dev/%i' |
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You are completely right; I had forgotten about redirection in Exec* directives. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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