Re: Re: uhoh, evil mojo ...

John Andersen <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2003 01:00:53 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Organization NORCOM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 12:39 am, J/ wrote:
> oh and...
>
> perhaps something that'd aid in my finding out what it is.
>
> Anybody know a way to capture/store the current status of my
> bios/temperature/etc into a file?  Just keep overwriting the same file
> again and again.  On a "normal shutdown" it whipes the file.  On bootup
> it checks if the file exists, if it doesn't it creates it, if it does it
> copies it to a directory for me to go over it and warns me and restarts
> the logging.
>
> Logging BIOS events, current system activities, temperature/etc would be
> great.  Just something constantly logging, writing every 2 seconds or
> so, overwriting itself not a continuous events log....

Cron this:
Cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ATF0/temperature >>/var/log/templog


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