Small Redhat Issues

Mr Chavez · 08-24-2002, 01:11 AM

I hope someone can help...I couldn't find the revelent threads

I need to know how to boot Redhat 7.3 with the Number Lock On..
I would also like to know if Redhat 7.3 has a tool similar to Scandisk in Windows.

Thanks

neo77777 · 08-24-2002, 01:20 AM

here is the answer http://skylinux.dyndns.org/linux/numlock.html

Mr Chavez · 08-24-2002, 01:31 AM

Thanks for the quick reply on the Number Lock issue

Do you know how I can scan my hard drive for errors??

neo77777 · 08-24-2002, 01:40 AM

dmesg|less
or do some HDD intesive task and watch as root
tail -f /var/log/messages
or
tailf /var/log/messages
also take a look at
man fsck

Mr Chavez · 08-24-2002, 10:19 PM

I added the following into my /etc/rc.d/rc file with no luck

INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done

The numlock turns off once I log into KDE 3.0 and strangly enough back on when I log out of KDE to turn my computer off. Have I entered the text into the wrong file?

Also what command line arguments would you recommend I use with fsck as it warns me is not safe to run a check on a mounted file system?