This one time, at band camp, elliott-brennan wrote: > I checked the box when it keeled over while my > wife was watching the telly and it was rather hot. > It could be the box is not pushed far enough back > in the TV cabinet (big mother which holds > everything) so the air may not have been able to > move around properly regardless of the fans. I've > moved it right to the back (I had already cut a > hole out of the rear of the cabinet to allow the > box to vent properly - wife was not amused).
Install the lm-sensors and sensord package. Then (as root) run sensors-detect. It'll test for available temperature sensors on your machine and set up the appropriate lines in /etc/modules.conf to load the right modules (first time you'll need to modprobe them yourself). Then type sensors to see all the output. For example, here's part of my output: adm1023-i2c-2-18 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at dcd0 Board Temp: +37.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +127.0°C) CPU Temp: +41.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +105.0°C) Fiddle around with /etc/sensors3.conf to set maximum temperatures, and actions when the maximums are exceeded (like, get it to send you an email?). -- Rev Simon Rumble <si...@rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
