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By Juergen Haas, About.com

Definition: sensord: Hardware sensor information logging daemon Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It works with most newer systems. This package contains a daemon that logs hardware health status to the system log with optional warnings on potential system problems. You will need lm-sensors and i2c kernel modules to use this package.

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Source: Debian 3.0r0 APT / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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