[Klug-general] System temperature monitoring

[Mike Evans]

J D Freeman wrote:
> 
> 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. 
> 

I think the biggest issues comes from whether you have the right bits 
and bobs (technical term for drivers etc) installed to pick up the 
information.  If you do then it is almost certainly brought through to 
the virtual filesystem in /proc and you can access that with cat, grep 
and sed if you need to as most things in there end up looking like text 
files.

For example on my main machine:
$ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature
temperature:             40 C



Mike