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

druck <news@druck.org.uk> writes:

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

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Sorry, picked up on the wrong part of the post.
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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.

No. See for example here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/hwmon/drivetemp.html, the
drivetemp driver uses ATA commands to read temperatures from drives or
alternatively, using SMART attributes. lm-sensors either uses the
drivetemp kernel driver or just reads from /sys/class/hwmon.

Which is why I said before, I find it odd if smartctl works and
drivetemp does not, although AFAiK no one has actually tried that in
this thread.

Unfortunately I don't have any recent USB HDs around. I do have an
USB-SSD case but don't have a spare SSD to put into it right now.