Re: [tlug] auto-shutdown at certain temp application?

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Micheal E Cooper wrote:
> Edward Middleton wrote:
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>> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 10:13 +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
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>>> I don't know if it's even possible to know the temperature of a SCSI drive.
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>> Well it is reported by smartd[1] but as to how meaningful the
>> measurement is I don't know.
>>
>> Edward
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>> 1. http://tlug.jp/ML/0603/msg00010.html
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> Thank you for the link. I really feel like a fish out of water at these 
> times. It had not occurred to me to just ask the machine how hot it is, 
> even though I knew about SMART and cpu temp readings.
>
> In the archives, there is no reply, and there is no "previous by 
> thread," so allow me to ask why you wanted to turn off temp reporting.
>   
Because it reports whenever the temperature changes irrespective of
whether it is out of range, you really only want the warnings when the
temperature is too high.  I ended up modifying the code to disable the
continuous temperature reporting, so now it should only report when it
is too high.

Edward