Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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 >> > There is a good chance that lm-sensors supports your servers with no > additional hardware needed. To configure lm-sensors, run > 'sensors-detect' as root. If your cpu/motherboard is supported you will > be able to read system temps directly either using SNMP or by scraping > 'sensors' output. > I'm looking for room temperature, not case temperature. -- Bowie