Re: Temperature monitoring
"Keith O'Connell" <keith_oconnell@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> I have been having, temperature trouble with my boxes due to the
> recent hot weather here in south east England. I want to monitor the
> temperature of the motherboard and cpu. I can reboot, go into the
> bios and see the temperature, but I want to avoid rebooting if
> possible.
>
> Is there a program to get values from the bios that can be run from
> within Linux?
You probably want to install the lm-sensors packages; 'sensors' and
'lm-sensors-source' are the ones you really need. You'll need to
build kernel modules that correspond to your kernel, though.
/usr/share/doc/lm-sensors-source/README.Debian explains how to do this.
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