Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 12:20:40 PM, Lupe wrote:

> I just received a PR for munin-node, complaining about error messages
> related to the lack of a hdparm command on FreeBSD.

> The munin-plugin hddtemp_smartctl tries to find out if a disk is spun
> down by invoking hdparm -C $fulldev. The plugin will skip the invocation
> of smartctl on such disks.

> Since it is really a bad idea to spin up a disk to ask it for its
> temperature - with what can I replace that command on FreeBSD?

AFAIK you can get HDD temp using sysutils/smartmontools on FreeBSD
only.

I never tried to do this for disks which are spin down. But why do you
need check temperature of such disks? One time someone will ask you to
minitor temperature for suspended server... IMHO it's not fully
correct :)


> Thanks for your help,
> Lupe Christoph



-- 
Sergey

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