sting wing wrote: > Question: how does a person know if their /dev is a static or dynamic /dev This is when it changed: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-kernel-udev That was way back in Etch 4.0. So any system newer than that, Lenny, Squeeze, Wheezy, Sid, will have a daynamic /dev. > i am reading an how to article at > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/327/Monitoring_your_hardware's_temperature > > and their are two instructs one for dynamic /dev > and the other for dynamic /dev That article is from 2006. I think it is safe to assume that you have a dynamic /dev these days. Meaning that you don't need to run MAKEDEV anymore. Just load the modules and let that trigger creation of the associated devices in /dev. I will also note that the hddtemp project mentioned in that article is pretty much dead. It came up for discussion elsewhere which is why I am familiar with it. I don't know if the tool still works or not. If so then great. If not then I would use the smartctl -A to dump the hdd temperature sensor data and extract it from there. Bob
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