Hello 
I have been trying to add more sensors for hdd drives temperatures but i see only one and no place/options to add more.I know they all work,(i have 4 physical hdd) if i use the hhdtemp command (dev/sdXX) it show the temp for all of them (one at time).
Any way to make gkrellm display all of them ?
I,ve been googling around and searching on various forums but haven’t found anything about that (other than how to make it work,or troubleshooting to make it work).
I’ve tried conky …but gives me more errors than info and i gave up.
Any help will be appreciated.
Hi
Have you configured hddtemp to monitor the additional drives? You need
to edit /etc/sysconfig/hddtemp like so;
# Put at least the disk(s) you want to monitor here.
# default is /dev/sda
DEVICE="/dev/sd[a-c]"
Ensure the hddtemp service is set to start;
chkconfig hddtemp
hddtemp on
If it’s off, use yast to start and enable the service or from the
command line;
chkconfig hddtemp on
rchddtemp start
Then you should see something like this in the gkrellmn configuration;
http://thumbnails13.imagebam.com/6838/f6659668377221.gif](ImageBam)
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Thx a lot for your reply
hddtemp is running and is set to start at boot,I have added the lines like this:
# program name
HDDTEMP_NAME="hddtemp"
# this file
HDDTEMP_CFG="/etc/sysconfig/hddtemp"
# hddtemp database of supported devices
HDDTEMP_DB="/etc/hddtemp.db"
# hddtemp port
HDDTEMP_PORT="7634"
# Put at least the disk(s) you want to monitor here.
# default is /dev/sda
DEVICE="/dev/sda"
DEVICE="/dev/sdb"
DEVICE="/dev/sdc"
DEVICE="/dev/sdd"
# hddtemp command line options.
HDDTEMP_ARGS="-d -f $HDDTEMP_DB -p $HDDTEMP_PORT $DEVICE"
Stopped and restarted gkrellm but still no luck…
hddtemp is running and if i do
hddtemp /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: ST3500320AS: 30°C
hddtemp /dev/sdc
/dev/sdc: WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1: 35°C
hddtemp /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd: Maxtor 6L250S0: 36°C
for that and the other disks it works …so i wonder why gkrellm won’t pick them up.
Hi
I would have done;
# Put at least the disk(s) you want to monitor here.
# default is /dev/sda
DEVICE="/dev/sd[a-d]"
Hi
As root set the sticky bit and restart hddtemp and gkrellm
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/hddtemp
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Hi
Yes! that worked (grouping them) thx a lot again
I have lost one of them (another 1TB full @80% ) hd a couple of weeks ago (mechanical fault tho and was only 4 month’s old) so now i want them in check.
P.S. added reputation (since no site i browsed/searched had an answer)
Hi
Excellent 
and thanks for the rep 
It shows it in the man page
under daemon mode, not sure why a search never found it… oh well
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Well…i didn’t search for a method for hddtemp …and maybe that’s why (only gkrellm since i thought it was his “fault”).
And actually maybe I’m blind but i still can’t find (if you were talking about gkrellm daemon).
Nonetheless thx again
BTW that last command was to give/set higher permission to hddtemp ?
Hi
It enables hddtemp to run as your user (SUID) with access to the
hardware (in your case /dev/sd)
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Thank you malcolmlewis.
You are really help me configure gkrellm charts
on the my new PC.
Have a nice day!