Simple (?) Assistance

[Reinheimer]

Hi!

 

 

I've been driving an iMac G4 until some money comes our way to replace it with,

well maybe an iMac G7

 

The cooling fan has gone out and all I wanna do is have my iMac shut down

when a certain temperature is reached

 

(that is, until I can replace that fan).

 

I'm starting from square-one in programing

and looking for any assistance anyone might be

able/willing to offer.

 

Seems to me this shouldn't be TOO difficult.

 

any takers out there?

 

 

Reinheimer

[el coniglio]

Hey, you can go simple and try going (this should work on G3/G4),

 

ioreg -n IOHWSensor

 

and parse data then (if necessary)

 

shutdown -h now

 

If you don't have the data you need in ioreg then you should verify those applications that monitor the temperatures (and prob have a kext to do it), check if there is an API to access the data or a bash command you can use to dump data or get a specific sensor value.