> The patch should be backed out. (The second part of the patch, which > removes the $sigtype = shift; is harmless) Instead, I implemented what James Olin Oden suggested: use a global variable to keep track of whether the fans were already restored, or not. Please check it out and confirm it works ok. > PS. For anyone who's interested, I have an /etc/init.d/fancontrol > start/stop script suitable for Fedora Core 1 for use with this perl > script (probably also good for FC2 and recent RedHat type distros) You can send it to the list and we will include into the CVS tree. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/