Hi Mark, On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:57:00 -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > No, it should work. That being said, where do you put these values? We > > do not have such an setup script for sensord. So please tell us: > > * What version of lm-sensors you're using. > > * Which distribution you are using. > > > > And attach (or point us to) a copy of the initialization script which > > is reading the variables you listed above. > > [root at gecko ~]# rpm -q lm_sensors sensord > lm_sensors-2.10.6-55.el5 > sensord-2.10.6-55.el5 This is somewhat old... > installed from atrpms on CentOS 5.2 x86_64. > > But I should add that the sensord init script in the rpm package seemed wrong to me > so I replaced it with one I copied from a fedora 7 install. This one just checks > that lm_sensors is already running, which should insure that the correct modules are > loaded. The other one was very old (from redhat 7.2) and actually tried to load > modules. Here is the one I am using: > (...) > And here is the file /etc/sysconfig/sensord, which is included into above: > > # configuration for hardware sensors monitoring daemon > # in intervals use suffix "m" for minutes, "s" for seconds, "h" for hours > # 0 means turning facility off > > # interval between scanning alarms > INTERVAL=0 > > # interval between logging to syslog > LOG_INTERVAL=30m > > # interval between RRD logging > #RRD_INTERVAL=30m > > # RRD db location > #RRD_LOGFILE=/var/log/sensors.rrd What hardware monitoring chip do you have? sensord in lm-sensors 2.10.x lacks support for many recent chips. Could be that logging works somewhat in generic mode but rrd supports need chip-specific support. -- Jean Delvare