hm well, if thinkfan runs in the background it tries to cause as little activity as possible, so there's no status info. Of course you can always look into /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal and /proc/acpi/ibm/fan to see the current state, but if thinkfan is run without the -n option there's really no verbosity in the fan control loop. Of course you can also do something like "thinkfan -n &> /var/log/thinkfan.log" in your init script.
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Hello!
I wonder whether one can check how ThinkFan works, once it has been set up, and made starting on boot?
Thanks,
PM
hm well, if thinkfan runs in the background it tries to cause as little activity as possible, so there's no status info. Of course you can always look into /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal and /proc/acpi/ibm/fan to see the current state, but if thinkfan is run without the -n option there's really no verbosity in the fan control loop. Of course you can also do something like "thinkfan -n &> /var/log/thinkfan.log" in your init script.