csensors-scan

Data description builder for csensors .. index:: csensors-scan, scan .. program:: csensors-scan

search through part of /sys tree determine interesting ( in csensors sense ) parts of /sys tree parse interesting parts and try to classify/guess nature of constant/variable/variable array/text

broke down retrieved data by each logical device write human readable data descripton file(s) csensors’s data description for the rest of package csensors-config and csensors-applet.

csensors-scan invocation

The csensors-scan script has several options:

-h, --help

Print a brief help message and exits.

--man

Prints the manual page and exits.

-n, --dry-run

Don’t actually create new data descriptions (input configurations) - just print what is found.

-v, --verbose

Print all available information.

--dir-list=DirA,DirB,...

Comma separated List of directories to add to default ones ( to append to /sys/class/...). Default “”. Disabled by –add mode.

--dir=DirA,DirB,...

List of directories to scan insted of default ones. Default “{hwmon,power_supply,thermal}”. Disabled by –add mode.

--root

Direcroty root to scan. Default “/sys/class”. Disabled by –add mode.

--add

Add just one file . Disables –root,–dir-list and –dir options

--rt-detect

Solve which (/sys/*) items are constant and which are variables simply by repeated reading. This method can find rapidly changing items like CPU temperature, but is guaranted to fail in the case of battery capacity of wall plugged notebook and so on.

--prefix=PREFIX

Override configuration prefix. Files and directories outside configuration prefix are unreachable by the rest of csensros package. Use with care.xs

AUTHOR

Petr Silhavy <petr DOT silhavy AT yandex DOT com>

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Copyright (C) 2018 Petr Silhavy <petr DOT silhavy AT yandex DOT com>

See also

Brief introduction to csensors csensors’s data description csensors-config csensors-applet