Ross Boylan a écrit :
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 06:44 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:00:25PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>>> Package: lm-sensors
>>> Version: 1:3.0.2-1+b2
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: lm-sensors: ignore in sensors.conf has no effect on output of 
>>> sensors or sensord
>>> Package: lm-sensors
>>> Version: 1:3.0.2-1+b2
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> I added a bunch of ignore lines to my sensors.conf, but the ignored sensors 
>>> are still
>>> reported by sensors run on the command line and by sensord.
>>>
>>> The docs do note that the ignore specification is only advisory, so I 
>>> suppose it's possible
>>> this is not a bug.  In that case, please consider this wishlist.  However, 
>>> it seems
>>> unlikely the basic apps are ignoring this.  It seems more likely I've 
>>> misunderstood
>>> something or there is a real bug.
>>>
>> If you are using lm-sensors version 3, you should do the change to
>> /etc/sensors3.conf. /etc/sensors.conf is for applications still using
>> the old version of the library. 
>>
> Thank you.  That works much better :)
> 
> Looking at the docs now, I see this info in there in several places.
> sensord's README.Debian mentions sensors.conf only.

Ok, I'll update the documentation.

> Many of the man pages mention sensor.conf and sensor3.conf.  They could
> be a bit clearer that this is version 3.
> 
> Would it be possible not to create sensor.conf for new installs?  I have
> a brand new Lenny system and added lm-sensors and sensord (and
> dependencies and suggestions).  If this was all v3, why did it create
> sensors.conf?  Actually, I'm assuming they created it; maybe it was
> already there.

/etc/sensor.conf is created because you have installed an application
still using the old version 2 of the library, that is libsensors3 (as
opposed to version 3 called libsensors4). Doing an install of the Lenny
without those applications does not create /etc/sensors.conf.


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