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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.magicnet.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-atl-21.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-hub.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-12.sprintlink.net!ns.hicom.net!ns.hicom.net!juergen From: Juergen Heberling <juergen@ns.hicom.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Pentium Fan Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:52:18 -0500 Organization: HICom, Inc. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.961127194604.5080A-100000@ns.hicom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.hicom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <329b402e.7984855@athena.veritas.com> I accept the rebuke regarding posting to news as root. I thank Peter for his suggestion to using a passive device. With a bit of hind-sight, it may not be possible to perform this check on a true pentium - the only place where I saw this check actually performed was on a 486 with a pentium overdrive. On a true pentium there does not seem to be a control signal back to the cpu .. -- Juergen On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > pmod@u1.abs.net (Peter M. O'Donnell) wrote: > > >System Administrator (root@ns.hicom.net) wrote: > >: Has anyone seen any software for a BSDI system which alerts you when the > >: fan for the Pentium stops working? > > > > has anyone see any software for a BSDI system which requires the > >owner to have a clue so they don't post as root? > > Has anyone seen any software for a BSD/OS system which tells students > to shut their little weenie traps and let others run their sites as > they wish? > -- > ROGER B.A. KLORESE VERITAS Software rogerk@veritas.com > 1600 Plymouth Street Mountain View, CA 94043 +1 415 335-8610 > "If you cannot bring good news, then don't bring any." -- Robert Zimmerman > >