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1 perry 1 diskseekd
2 !!!diskseekd
3 Name
4 Note
5 Description
6 Options
7 Bugs
8 See Also
9 ----
10 !!Name
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13 diskseekd - disk seek daemon; simulates Messy Dos' drive cleaning effect
14 !!Note
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17 This manpage has been automatically generated from fdutils's
18 texinfo documentation. However, this process is only
19 approximative, and some items, such as crossreferences,
20 footnotes and indices are lost in this translation process.
21 Indeed, these items have no appropriate representation in
22 the manpage format. Moreover, only the items specific to
23 each command have been translated, and the general
24 information about fdutils has been dropped in the manpage
25 version. Thus I strongly advise you to use the original
26 texinfo doc.
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29 *
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32 To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the
33 following commands:
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36 __ ./configure; make dvi; dvips fdutils.dvi
37 __
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40 *
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43 To generate a html copy, run:
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46 __ ./configure; make html
47 __A premade html can be found at: `http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils'
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50 *
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53 To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode),
54 run:
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57 __ ./configure; make info
58 __
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61 The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html.
62 Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult
63 to read due to the quoting conventions used in
64 info.
65 !!Description
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68 Several people have noticed that Linux has a bad tendency of
69 killing floppy drives. These failures remained completely
70 mysterious, until somebody noticed that they were due to
71 huge layers of dust accumulating in the floppy drives. This
72 cannot happen under Messy Dos, because this excuse for an
73 operating system is so unstable that it crashes roughly
74 every 20 minutes (actually less if you are running Windows).
75 When rebooting, the BIOS seeks the drive, and by doing this,
76 it shakes the dust out of the drive mechanism.
77 diskseekd simulates this effect by seeking the
78 drive periodically. If it is called as diskseek,
79 the drive is seeked only once.
80 !!Options
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83 The syntax for diskseekd is as
84 follows:
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87 diskseekd [[-d ''drive''] [[-i ''interval''] [[-p ''pidfile''
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93 -d ''drive''
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96 Selects the drive to seek. By default, drive 0
97 (`/dev/fd0') is seeked.
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100 -i ''interval''
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103 Selects the cleaning interval, in seconds. If the interval
104 is 0, a single seek is done. This is useful when calling
105 diskseek from a crontab. The default is 1000 seconds (about
106 16 minutes) for diskseekd and 0 for
107 diskseek.
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110 -p ''pidfile''
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113 Stores the process id of the diskseekd daemon into
114 ''pidfile'' instead of the default
115 `/var/run/diskseekd.pid'.
116 !!Bugs
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119 1.
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122 Other aspects of Messy Dos' flakiness are not
123 simulated.
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126 2.
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129 This section lacks a few smileys.
130 !!See Also
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133 Fdutils' texinfo doc
134 ----
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