Hello :-) The lm-sensors 3.0.0 init script "lm-sensors" runs only two significant commands: sensors -s sensors I understand the "sensors -s" activates any limits created by set statements in sensors3.conf. What happens (or could be configured to happen) if a limit is exceeded? The sensors.conf man page tells how to configure set values but not what they do. Why does the init script run sensors (discarding its output)? Is this necessary for initialisation before lmsensors library functions can be used? In case the answers to these questions depend on hardware and lmsensors library users, I am particularly interested in the it87 chip and GKrellM. Best Charles