Re: [gentoo-user] numlock script and systemd

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi.  I would like to use my /etc/init.d/numlock script with systemd, but
> > systemctl start just says warning numlock is already starting.  I
> > thought that if a service  was not there it would use something in
> > /etc/init.d and create one, so what am I doing wrong?
>
> That only works for "normal" SysV scripts. OpenRC scripts are similar,
> but different enough so that systemd on Gentoo doesn't even tries to
> load them.
>
> To do what you want, there are several ways: for example you can
> create a service for each terminal and enable all of them, or you can
> create a template service, and create instances for all your
> terminals.
>
> However, in systemd all the VTs are not started until you switch to
> them (except the first one), sou you have the start the services for
> each terminal *after* getty@××××.service, with N=1,2,...
>
> I think the easiest option is for you to override getty@.service, by
> creating /etc/systemd/systemd/getty@.service.d/numlock.conf, and
> putting:
>
> ------------------------
> ExecStartPost=setleds -D +num < /dev/%I
> ------------------------
>
> in int. Then you only do "systemctl --system daemon-reload", and if
> everything works, you should have numlock activated in each VT when
> you switch to them.
>
> Check man 5 systemd.unit; the proper explanation for all the options
> is given there.

Thanks, I have put it in, we shall see what happens on the next reboot.


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