Re: [SLE] Cautionary Tales: lm_sensors for beginners

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2006-09-09 at 23:17 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:

- because the lm_sensors file is not visible.
Make it 'visible' to SUSE and the sound starts.

That may be because the script/program responsible does not run, ie, exits, if it doesn't find the configuration file.

I feel that we are starting to lose the plot here.

I posted my original message for the simple reason that by having the lm_sensors file created a high-pitched noise started up when I booted into SUSE. It took a while to locate the reason for this noise so I posted the message in case someone else, at some future time, strikes the same problem and wonders what may be the sudden cause of the noise.

Joe Morris responded with the statement that nothing happens with lm_sensors until one copies the startup script from /usr/share/doc/packages/sensors/prog/init to /etc/init.d and then enables the script; he asked if I did this and I answered NO.

By accepting that this script had to be activated before lm_sensors started to actually work, I suggested that my (original) message was more relevant than I initially thought because here was a control file causing noise when the script which used it wasn't even activated (and that when this file was removed the noise stopped).

While I still don't really know how lm_sensors work or what makes it work, after reading quickly the wording of the lm_sensors file created by /usr/sbin/sensors-detect command I now think that in SUSE 10.1 the sensors start working when the file lm_sensors exists in /etc/sysconfig - and this goes contrary to what Joe suggested.

If this is the case, that the sensors app. runs when lm_sensors is present in /etc/sysconfig, then it makes perfect sense why the noise stops when I rename the lm_sensors file - and what you state above is correct.

But we got to this point after tossing some ideas around :-) . However, I hope that my original posting, about what may be causing the sudden appearance of a high-pitched noise when fooling around with lm_sensors, comes in handy to someone in the future. The only thing we haven't resolved - but does it matter? - is what exactly in the parameters created by sensors-detect is causing the noise to be generated? :-)

Cheers.



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