3 Jul
2007
3 Jul
'07
2:38 p.m.
On 03/07/2007 18:02, Jules Richardson wrote:
1) The hard disk (Shugart SA4008) drive belt seems
to have a habit of
running 1mm or so out of line at startup, resulting in it rubbing
against the chassis beneath the spindle pulley. Once it picks up speed
it sorts itself out, but I was wondering whether there's any adjustment
in either the spindle pulley or drive motor in order to get it to run a
little better?
If it's a crowned pulley, that's fairly normal. Gravity pulls it down
as it slows down and goes slightly slack.
2) From PNX, Is there an official way of logging out
a user on the
console other than ^Z? (^D, logout, exit etc. don't work)
^Z is presumably the end-of-file character, as is common on older UNIX
systems, and that's the correct way to log out of UNIX. ^D is often the
EOF character on newer UNIX systems, but you can change it using stty.
3) Shutdown procedure - is 'bye' sufficient
or do I need to be doing
something else first? The manual's a little ambiguous on this (and 'bye'
alone executes so unbelievably quickly that it made me worry it wasn't
correctly flushing files, parking heads etc.)
Normally you'd have root type "sync" twice before "bye" (which
probably
just does a "kill -1 1" to kill process ID 1, which is init).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York