I dunno if I sent this before, I hacked up an ext script that would report the temperature to Hobbit. Folks here don't usually use Celcius so the script uses the -f option. For this to work you must have lm_sensors installed and configured (via sensors-detect).
-Charles
#!/bin/sh
YELLOW and RED THRESHOLD VALUES for TEMPERATURE
YTMP=75 RTMP=79
SENSORS="/usr/bin/sensors -f" COLOR=green MSG=Error
PARSE TEMPERATURE INFORMATION.
TMP=${SENSORS}| ${GREP} -i temp|tail -1|cut -d"(" -f1|cut -d"°" -f1|cut -d"+" -f2|cut -d"." -f1
if [ ${TMP} -le ${YTMP} ];
then
COLOR=green
MSG="The Temperature is currently ${TMP}F, which does not exceed
the Warning level (${YTMP}F)"
fi
if [ ${TMP} -gt ${YTMP} ] && [ ${TMP} -lt ${RTMP} ];
then
COLOR=yellow
MSG="The Temperature is currently ${TMP}F, which is exceeds the
Warning level (${YTMP}F)"
fi
if [ ${TMP} -gt ${RTMP} ];
then
COLOR=red
MSG="The Temperature is currently ${TMP}F, which exceeds the
Panic level (${RTMP}F!)"
fi
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.temp $COLOR date
$MSG
temp : $TMP
"