Re: How risky is lm_sensors's sensors-detect nowadays?

Friday, 24 March 9:27 a.m. -, Jeff Bastian wrote: > Can Freon check if sensors-detect has been run before, and if not, pop > up a dialog box asking to run it and warn about the risks? Yes, if you haven't run `sensors-detect` yet, Freon says that you need to do so instead of showing the

Re: How risky is lm_sensors's sensors-detect nowadays?

On 03/23/2017 08:43 PM, Andrew Toskin wrote: ... Does anyone here know the risk factors [of running sensors-detect], and how much risk there really is today ... My experience is that sensors[-detect] works best for an Intel x86* CPU with 100% PCI/PCI-e cards, and for some older AMD x86*

Re: How risky is lm_sensors's sensors-detect nowadays?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 03:43:09AM -, Andrew Toskin wrote: > I've used both Freon and lm_sensors without blowing up my computer, > and it since `sensors-detect` is mandatory for Freon to work, it seems > like it should be included in a %post scriptlet. But I don't want to > damage unsuspecting

How risky is lm_sensors's sensors-detect nowadays?

I'm working on packaging Freon, a GNOME Shell extension that displays hardware temperature in the top bar. Freon relies on lm_sensors, and needs the `sensors-detect` command to be run before it will work. The interactive