[tlug] auto-shutdown at certain temp application?

[Scott VanDusen <Scott_VanDusen@example.com>]

Hi everyone,

After a lot of research and several trips to Akihabara I finally settled on a fanless Zalmann external cooling reservoir tower for my new server. Last night I tested the cooling capabilities of the heatsink on a 2.2Gz dual-core opteron processor, and the onboard bios monitor showed it at a steady 45C after an hour. However I'm guessing it run a bit hotter once I get the OS installed and it's been on for a while. I'm planning on using conky or gDesklets to monitor the CPU and motherboard temps, but I'm still a bit wary of this new liquid cooling technology, so I would like to have some script that checks the temp of the CPU and then if it hits a certain degree sends out a mail and then performs a shutdown. The BIOS allows for automatic shutdown at 80C, but I would like to have the software bring the server down gracefully at a lower temperature. Maybe a polling program that does cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature and if it gets to a certain degree runs shutdown -h now? Has anyone heard of a program that does something like this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,

Scott VanDusen

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