internal temperature sensor?

[Christopher A. Bier]

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> Message from syslogd at justice at Fri Dec  8 15:29:07 2006 ...
> justice kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
>
> when I was fiddling with the BIOS of my fancy new 1U server,
> I set "fan always on" to "turn fan on when exceeding temperature"
> but apparently the temperature there is not low enough to blow
> the heat out when I do something CPU-intensive (such as run
> my .sig for twenty minutes)
>
> Who knows how to find out what the current temperature is?
> Is it in /proc/misc or somewhere?
>
> This new-fangled magic is beyond me; in my days when the computers
> overheated, they simply caught fire and halted.
>
> --
> perl -le'1while(1x++$_)=~/^(11+)\1+$/||print'

lm-sensors is pretty useful.  There are several x/kde/gnome clients that
will read data based on this client and libs.

smartmon-tools is also helpful for monitoring the temp and status of
harddrives.

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