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Set Num Lock on/off under Linux

console, setleds -D {+|-}num < {tty}
X, numlockx {on|off|switch}
http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/
Mandrake has numlockx in /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock

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

numlockx on