On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:41:28AM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote: > What is the best way to shutdown (power off) automatically a Linux box when > the temperature (on motherboard) rises to a critical value due to fan > (or AC, ...) failure? > > (I am sure more people have lost hardware in such situations.) Setup lm-sensors so that you can access all the information your motherboard is generating. Then get sensord and set it up to shut things down or idle or whatever you want when temp values (or fan rpms) get to dangerous levels. -rob
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