default sensorsd.conf change

Lanir lanir at cisns.net
Wed May 25 14:45:27 PDT 2016


Nevermind then... When it began working I thought I'd found something
and stopped looking into it. Reverting and checking again didn't seem to
change anything so I was wrong. Thanks for the info, I see now why it's
off by default.

Sorry!


On 05/25/16 16:35, Constantine Aleksandrovich Murenin wrote:
> Hi Lanir,
>
> Lack of the decimal places in sensorsd.conf has never been an issue
> with sensorsd on OpenBSD; is DragonFly's strtod(3) somehow different
> to the one in OpenBSD?
>
>     http://bxr.su/d/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.c#get_val
>
>     http://bxr.su/o/lib/libc/gdtoa/strtod.c#strtod
>
>     http://mdoc.su/f/strtod.3
>
> I think the issue you're encountering is instead documented in the
> CAVEATS part of sensorsd.conf(5):
>
>     http://bxr.su/d/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.conf.5#172
>
> 172.Sh CAVEATS
> 173Alert functionality is triggered every time there is a change in
> sensor state;
> 174for example, when
> 175.Xr sensorsd 8
> 176is started,
> 177the status of each monitored sensor changes
> 178from undefined to whatever it is.
>
> Cheers,
> Constantine.
>
> On 25 May 2016 at 14:04, Lanir <lanir at cisns.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can someone change the default /etc/sensorsd.conf file (if it hasn't
>> been updated in a change I missed already)? The value it's checking has
>> 2 places after the decimal which confuses sensorsd, since the default
>> sensorsd.conf file is set to "high=85C" with no decimal places.
>>
>> Here's the header of the file I had in case it's changed:
>> # $OpenBSD: sensorsd.conf,v 1.8 2007/08/14 19:02:02 cnst Exp $
>> # $DragonFly: src/etc/sensorsd.conf,v 1.1 2007/10/02 12:57:00 hasso Exp $
>>
>>
>> And here's the new default config line I'd recommend:
>>
>> hw.sensors.cpu_node0.temp0:high=85.00C:command=/sbin/poweroff
>>
>> Current default behavior is somewhat surprising; system always shuts
>> down no matter the temperature a minute or two after sensorsd starts
>> running. Amusing on a local system, probably not so much on a remote one.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!





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