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Sathors

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Registered: 2011-02-23

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[SOLVED] What's the use of the sensors daemon ?

So I've a question regarding the sensors daemon (I'm not talking about sensord which is something else).
I've put it as advised in my rc.d (back-grounded), but I don't see any related process in the process tree (with ps -el), nor when I start it manually (with /etc/rc.d/sensors).

My questions are :
What does it do ?
Is it really needed ?
And if so do you know the name of the process ?

It's a detail but I don't want to autostart things I don't understand (it's not the archway I think ^^).

Thank you and good day !

Last edited by Sathors (2011-02-24 19:19:23)

Convergence

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Re: [SOLVED] What's the use of the sensors daemon ?

I think that it just loads modules.

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Sathors

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Re: [SOLVED] What's the use of the sensors daemon ?

So why is it named a daemon if it's not a running process ?

If you are right I should leave him at upstart then.

Thank you for your answer.
Any more remarks ?

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Re: [SOLVED] What's the use of the sensors daemon ?

1. Just read it and see exactly what it does? It's just a plain old bash script after all.
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lm_sensors

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Sathors

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Re: [SOLVED] What's the use of the sensors daemon ?

I've already read the wiki page, so I'm gonna read the bash script.

Thank you.