[Klug-general] System temperature monitoring

[J D Freeman]

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:39:01AM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:
> 2009/12/14 Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>:
> > Good morning all,
> > My mate's old Linux PC is wheezing with HD spooling up and the whole
> > system shutting down occasionally.
> > Methinks a temperature problem.
> > Is there a simple console command which displays various system
> > temperatures?
> > All kind offerings gratefully received.
> > MikeR
> >
> 
> Quick answer, No.
> 
> Long Answer
> 
> hddtemp /dev/sda
> 
> will tell you the temperature from the SMART settings of the first
> hard disk. but it will not tell you how hot the computer is only how
> hot the hard disk things it is and different hard disks give different
> answers (even in the same machine)
> 
> Further to this you can use lm-sensors (But I can't see how to use it
> from the command line)
> 
> which means running sensors-detect followed by sensors to see the results...

This is actually one area I don't have a command line answer, as I use
gklremm for machine monitoring, this gives me useful temperature numbers.

hddtemp has proven reasonably accurate for me on western digital hard
disks. 

J
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