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authorHans-Joerg Hoexer <hshoexer@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-01 22:10:24 +0000
committerHans-Joerg Hoexer <hshoexer@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-01 22:10:24 +0000
commita79d93b1fa6cb131136c3e41382ffde1addfafa2 (patch)
tree0103e9a1811008cf05bbff4c88dd1a5598f5a6c6 /usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8
parent36e2c747372b1e097aa424f5389a520bfe7acdd8 (diff)
sensorsd(8) execute command on exceeding limits
from matthew.gream@pobox.com, thanks! cleaning and ok deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.811
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8 b/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8
index 8f0f245f44f..2f30e6bb72f 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sensorsd/sensorsd.8
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: sensorsd.8,v 1.4 2004/06/27 22:48:27 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: sensorsd.8,v 1.5 2005/04/01 22:10:23 hshoexer Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Henning Brauer <henning@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Matthew Gream <matthew.gream@pobox.com>
.\"
.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd September 20, 2003
+.Dd March 15, 2005
.Dt SENSORSD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -28,11 +29,11 @@ The
utility retrieves hardware sensor monitoring data like fan speeds,
temperatures and voltages, via
.Xr sysctl 3 .
-It uses
+If the data is out of given limits, an alert is sent using
.Xr syslog 3
-to send an alert if they are out of the given limits.
+and a command, if specified, is executed.
.Pp
-Limits for a particular sensor may be specified in the
+Limit and command values for a particular sensor may be specified in the
.Xr sensorsd.conf 5
configuration file.
.Sh FILES