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Configuration of hddtemp

hddtemp shows the temperature of IDE and SCSI hard drives by reading S.M.A.R.T. information.

You can quickly configure various settings as follows:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure hddtemp

This allows you to configure things like:

  • Allow non-root users to start hddtemp
  • Run as daemon
  • Port to use