Comments on: Monitor CPU and hard drive temperatures on Ubuntu Linux

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:08:10 +0000

Thanks …..
I Now can see the cpu and hdd temps….

Thanks again !
for the detailed procedure It helped me a lot

By: anonynous

anonynous — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:05:10 +0000

as COMMAND it supposed to be ‘restart’
so the line should be like this: sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools

alternatively restart should work also

By: prj

prj — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:49:37 +0000

I too have the same result from the module-init-tools line: It does nothing but gives me a syntax error (COMMAND required).

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:47:27 +0000

Steve. I used the command:
sudo modprobe it87

instead of:
/etc$ sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools

got the info from here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/236963-50-temperature-monitoring-ubuntu

By: Steve Nash

Steve Nash — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:40:50 +0000

On Ubuntu 9.10 I encountered a problem with one of your instructions:

NashFS:/etc$ sudo /etc/init.d/module-init-tools
Usage: /etc/init.d/module-init-tools COMMAND

Can you advise?

Thanks for this page, I am trying to arrange a temperature alarm (email) from a server that is in potentially ‘hot’ spot. Any further suggestions you have would be appreciated.
Steve

By: amaddog

amaddog — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:06:10 +0000

my cpu isn’t showing up (its a Pentium 3)

By: rangga aditya

rangga aditya — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:23:40 +0000

just like john said, I also can’t display harddisk. it is wierd because I use ubuntu before (jaunty) and it works. but this karmic does not detect my harddisk…

By: roddo

roddo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:16:03 +0000

Excellent.
Thankyou.

By: siva

siva — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:36:24 +0000

Hi. thanks for the detailed procedure… i helped me a lot…

By: John Hat

John Hat — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:28:50 +0000

On my Laptop I cannot get the HDDTEMP to display using the applets. I can use the command “sudo hddtemp /dev/sda” and get the HD temperature. I have tried both the “sensors applet” and the “Computer Temperature Applet” and neither will pull in the HDDTemp. I did get this to work on my desktop using the “sensors applet”

Any suggestions?
I am using an Acer Trvelmate 2480 Laptop, with an Intel chipset. I have 2GB RAM and a S.M.A.R.T. hard drive. OS = Ubuntu 9.04