[Klug-general] System temperature monitoring

[Laurence Southon]

Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> 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
>
See if there is a package for 'mbmon' or 'xmbmon' for the distro.

lm-sensors might also work, but is dependent on kernel modules being 
available for the hardware, and can be tricky to set up.

If you want to see trends over time, then you could install Munin and 
the appropriate plugins for mbmon or lm-sensors. You'll then get graphs 
which might show you what is going on.

Sorry, none of the above is trivial.

LS
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Laurence Southon
Tiger Computing, Bexley
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