From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LlA8v-00045B-Gz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:58:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B21BFE04DD; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C89DE04DD for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j5so967769wah.2 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:58:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=goZZTHHWUfb+EzLeKuXrvQ7SnszP30RiP5UH9pFkCAw=; b=c5Nx0Eb1a840gpGqtDUgUuUhV4/mrmc3fokpb0Z1bUaiwnZqumCo0Zxvm7WJqHQfWz 1kXB7955uoe/oSK4Zh3Y2Qd0okFKMIyksw/AJTUt9l7kljnpSGuq1ex/fpgHlBOBZ8KT REM2WGiNc23CJyF8V9cEriMxs8S24j7k9ypwI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HhfFAFJDWn1xovLI5FQbsz3YGZkkX+jj7BO3bbok4AE1Pox1yWFzSV5Tna8tb3Z0Dp tlLiHN23Gs9zJs+kMLumnE1ObaJSMP2JX0RNPBkS+Ipm4UgccwRYWiWATOW72TsJVsVN hOehmJ/iOEa7PquR7j+BJUDMpzmotKBFVmY4c= Received: by 10.115.110.6 with SMTP id n6mr3556464wam.227.1237676294954; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?4.230.105.190? (dialup-4.230.105.190.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.190]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v25sm3630691wah.51.2009.03.21.15.58.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:58:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49C570FD.1000401@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:58:05 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring temperatures References: <49bf44f10903201414r51c60fa8ncf204ac64872eb0f@mail.gmail.com> <200903202309.09769.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <49C4291D.8090001@gmail.com> <20090321115425.55a92fea@coercion> <49C496AC.9090507@gmail.com> <20090321180117.426905aa@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090321180117.426905aa@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f91c20ac-1d75-4621-8d15-7b00114a2ade X-Archives-Hash: 5b57cce1020f9b0a7f61f6511677f86a Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 02:26:36 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> What may also be a good idea is to have some way to shut the systems >> down when they get to hot or if the A/C fails. >> > > Most BIOSes will do this automatically,although they tend to let the > temperature get quite high. lm_sensors includes a daemon that will monitor > temperatures and send warnings and alarms. > > > I may be wrong here, but doesn't it just shut off like cutting off power? Or does it tell the OS to do the shutdown, like in a real hurry? I never tested that "feature" so I'm not real clear on how that works. Dale :-) :-)