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Starting fancontrol at boot

I added the following line to my etc/rc.d/rc.local

Code:

/usr/sbin/fancontrol

and at the end of the boot sequence, fancontrol started, and stopped the boot sequence. I couldn't log in and I was forced to boot from the slackware dvd and manually delete rc.local to be able to boot again.

fancontrol works fine when I start it from a terminal.

Is there a way to start it at boot without stopping the boot sequence ?

Thanks in advance for any help,
-Danodare

Try:

Code:

/usr/sbin/fancontrol &

Perhaps for more ganular control:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# /etc/rc.d/rc.fancontrol



# Start/stop/restart fancontrol.



# Start fancontrol:

fancontrol_start() {

  if [ -x /usr/sbin/fancontrol ]; then

    echo "Starting PWM fancontrol: /usr/sbin/fancontrol"

    if [ "`ps ax | grep /usr/sbin/fancontrol | grep -v grep`" = "" ]; then

      /usr/sbin/fancontrol &

    else

      echo "/usr/sbin/fancontrol is already running."

    fi

  else

    echo "/usr/sbin/fancontrol is not executable or is not installed."

  fi

}



# Stop fancontrol:

fancontrol_stop() {

  echo "Stopping PWM fancontrol."

  if [ -r /var/run/fancontrol.pid ]; then

    kill -9 $(cat /var/run/fancontrol.pid) 2>/dev/null

  else

    killall /usr/sbin/fancontrol 2>/dev/null

  fi

}



# Restart fancontrol:

fancontrol_restart() {

  fancontrol_stop

  sleep .5

  fancontrol_start

}



case "$1" in

  'start')

    fancontrol_start

    ;;

  'stop')

    fancontrol_stop

    ;;

  'restart')

    fancontrol_restart

    ;;

*)

  echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart"

  exit 1

esac

In rc.local:

Code:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.fancontrol ]; then

  /etc/rc.d/rc.fancontrol start

fi

In rc.local_shutdown:

Code:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.fancontrol ]; then

  /etc/rc.d/rc.fancontrol stop

fi

Thank you ! It worked. At first, it only worked randomly because hwmon symlinks got randomly switched on reboots. Then I changed my /etc/fancontrol to

Code:

INTERVAL=100

FCTEMPS=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/temp1_input /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:pr

int:]]*/pwm1=/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/temp1_input

FCFANS=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/fan2_input /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:pri

nt:]]*/pwm1=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/fan1_input

MINTEMP=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=40 /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=40

MAXTEMP=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=60 /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=60

MINSTART=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=150 /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=60

MINSTOP=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=0 /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=40

MINPWM=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=0

MAXPWM=/sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm2=255 /sys/devices/platform/nct6775.656/hwmon/hwmon[[:print:]]*/pwm1=255

And after that, it worked on all reboots.