On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:23, Jean Delvare wrote: > > thanks again for your help and I enjoy lm_sensors. I use GKrellm and > > it updates all the time. Fun. > > You're welcome. Happy users are our greatest reward. > > > I noticed one thing however that may be particular to my system. Even > > though the installation script places an lm_sensors shell script in > > /etc/rc.d/init.d and a lm_sensors file in /etc/sysconfig, it is never > > used. > > Just to make it clear, lm_sensors doesn't install these files by > default. You have to run sensors-detect in order to create > /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors, and you have to copy the > prog/init/lm_sensors.init file to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors by > yourself. Yes, but they ARE there, but not being used. Also, as I mentioned, sensors-detect recommended putting the modprobe lines in an rc.* file (rc.local for me). > > If you got lm_sensors as a package for your distribution, this process > may have been half or fully automated though. No, I compiled CVS > > > Looking at my dmesg output, the only thing starting is the > > lines from the rc.local file I modified. > > > > I could install the lm_sensors shell script using the SysV editor, but > > I don't want to mess anything up having the rc.local script running > > fine. > > Well, as long as things work the way you want, it's alright. That's for sure! :) > > > As feedback, it seems to me that either the install script show > > recommended lines for an rc.* file OR allow the user to install the > > script as part of the start up sequence. > > > > Right now, I have the files, but they are never used! > > The fact that the files are used or not depend on the system. For > example, I have a Slackware system, and it doesn't care a bit about > /etc/sysconfig/. Copying prog/init/lm_sensors.init wouldn't help by > itself, I still would have to tell the system to run that script at > startup, it won't by default. So I have to say that I do not use this > script at all (same as you, it seems) but wrote my own script as > /etc/rc.d/rc.sensors, which I am calling from /etc/rd.c/rc/local. > Ah, now it is clear. Yes, it seems I would have to insert the lm_sensors script in run levels 3-5. > > Let me know what you think. > > How to install lm_sensors highly depends on the distribution, and we > don't support all of them at the moment, so some work by the user may > still be required. I don't consider this a big problem. Usually, > lm_sensors is packaged for distributions with the specific changes to > fit each distribution, so end users don't notice it. For the rest of > them (the ones that compile from the sources), we consider them aware > enough to read the docs and adapt the installation process to their > system on their own. > > For most distributions, the only step required is to add a bunch of > symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/, to /etc/rc.d/init.d/lm_sensors. This can > usually be automated using chkconfig (if I'm not mistaking). So it's not > that hard, and we can't really take that last step instead of the user. > We consider it the system owner's responsability to decide at which > runlevels lm_sensors should be started. > > If you can think of some improvement we could add to our installation > process, let us know. I will! I am no expert, but sometimes too curious for my own well-being! Thanks again for your time and for assisting me. Regards, -- Peter Hyman Home:(609)395-1211 Office: (609)655-1184, Fax:(609)655-0285 Stop Telemarketers. Sign up for Do Not Call at http://donotcall.gov -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 193 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20030921/89c16197/attachment.bin
