Re: Simple way for web to execute root shell script.

On 28/05/2025 08:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 27/05/2025 21:44, druck wrote:
It does work with smartcl, Not with lm-sensors

Sorry, picked up on the wrong part of the post.
lm-sensors wont work with external USB drives as it only knows about things connected to the internal busses of a machine such as acpi and i2c, and the Pi only had the latter.
If you really want to measure the disc's temperature using lm-sensors, you could attach a i2c temperature sensor to it and add a device tree entry so it is detected. See:-
https://www.bergzand.net/the-raspberry-pi-a-temperature-sensor-and-the-device-tree.html
But unless you are using the external drive somewhere with an incredibly high ambient temperature, it's very unlikely to overheat. The only hard drive I had problems with was inside a DVR in a rack of other equipment in an enclosed space. I had to tweak the fan configuration to keep it under it's alert temperature of 55C.
---druck