"hddtemp"

[sanjay_ankur]

hey all... i installed this package called hddtemp from the package manager... its supposed to monitor the hard disk temperature.. however running it from the services menu says you need to configure it... can someone please tell me what to write in the configuration file???

[marko]

If your hard disk is /dev/sda (for example), then
add that to the end of the HDDTEMP_OPTIONS value
in your /etc/sysconfig/hddtemp file
so it looks like this:

HDDTEMP_OPTIONS="-l 127.0.0.1 /dev/sda"

But of course in your case that might be /dev/sdb, ... etc

You can see what device name your hard disk is with
the "df" command (the device names will be in the left most
column).

Note also, the man page on Fedora for hddtemp seems
pretty poor. It makes no mention of the /etc/sysconfig/hddtemp
file. I had to track it down by looking at the init.d script.

Mark

[sanjay_ankur]

hey thanx for the config... i did that.. the daemons started successfully.. anyhow... how do i use it?? usually i add it to the panel but hddtemp isnt there in the options.... man page is really awful... hardly gives any info.. couldnt find usage there...

[Hlingler]

Hello:

From the command line:

[Vince@presario Wed Mar 05 13:36:45 ~]$ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: HDT722516DLA380: 44°C
[Vince@presario Wed Mar 05 13:37:00 ~]$

Graphical displays: ksensors (for KDE desktop, works good for me, screenshot attached), gkrellm+gkrellm-hddtemp plugin (never worked for me); home page for hddtemp: http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php.


Regards,
V

[sanjay_ankur]

hey... thanx a bunch.. am kinda newbie but command lines k for me... cheers..

[marko]

The daemon form of hddtemp that runs from the init.d services system
just writes temp values into the /var/log/messages file. It's not really
meant to be a cool desktop tool. If you want that, go with one
of Hlingler's options like ksensors or gkrellm.
Back to the daemon version, if you make the /etc/sysconfig/hddtemp
entry like this:

HDDTEMP_OPTIONS="-l 127.0.0.1 --syslog=60 /dev/sda"

it will write the temp reading to the /var/log/messages each minute
(pick whatever number of seconds you want) and looks like this:

Mar  5 16:22:10 dinsdale hddtemp[15198]: /dev/sda: SEAGATE ST336607LW: 37 C
Mar  5 16:23:10 dinsdale hddtemp[15198]: /dev/sda: SEAGATE ST336607LW: 38 C
Mar  5 16:24:10 dinsdale hddtemp[15198]: /dev/sda: SEAGATE ST336607LW: 37 C

man page is really awful... hardly gives any info.. couldnt find usage there...

Someone at Debian wrote it at least that's what the man page says at the end.

Mark