Hello :-) How about modifying the fancontrol script to write error messages to stderr? It would be more conventional and, for example could be used to make it less verbose -- while allowing any error messages to appear -- when run from boot scripts by something like: fancontrol > /dev/null Best Charles _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors