On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Dominik Zyla <gavroche at gavroche.pl> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:00:21AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with >> Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple >> sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know >> if the server room is getting hot. > > Hi, > > Any RS-232 temperature sensor should do the job. > The USB ones also (generally) work with CentOS, though you may need to resort to reading the USB device with a script and doing your own graphing and alerting.