Thursday, May 29, 2008

Monitor the hard drive temperature via command line

You can monitor the hard drive temperature via command line. For that you need to install the command binary hddtemp.

In redhat servers you can install using the command yum.

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yum install hddtemp

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In other server like CENTOS, FEDORA and FreeBSD you need to install it from source file with the steps given below.

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>> Download the DB file

cd /etc

wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp.db

>> Download the source

cd /usr/local

wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp-0.3-beta7.tar.gz

tar -zxvf hddtemp-0.3-beta7.tar.gz

cd hddtemp-0.3-beta7

make

make install

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That’s all. You have done It :)

Typical Output of hddtemp command.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Actually I was searching for the "Typical Output of hddtemp command" but it was not there.