Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

[Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk>]

Bob wrote:
> David A. wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 9:10 am, Bob <s...@homeurl.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Hi, I'm trying to get my etch MythTV Backend to shutdown automatically
> > > if either the CPU or the Hard drives overheat.
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> > Hi all, I have similar worries since I run a fanless EPIA. If load
> > gets to high and I'm not at home, or asleep I want the system to shut
> > down.
> > I wrote this small script using sensors to detect and warn high temps.
> > At  very high temps execute shutdown.
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> Hi David
> A shell script did occur to me, but I thought with so many hardware 
> monitoring daemons, and so many hardware monitor logging daemons, and 
> so many GUI widgets for outputting the results of the previous 2 in 
> practically every desktop environment ever conceived, some of which 
> allow you to automate tasks on event conditions, there *MUST* be an 
> option for headless systems other than some loopy shell script.
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Are we really the only ones? Just thought I'd post a link to the thread 
incase someone relevant missed  it over the weekend, which is easy to do 
on such a high volume list.
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/777342699b05e16c/dee09f811a63870c?
if that works.


Thanks.