to get Cpu tempt and status

[ramziur]

Hello!

is there any command in linux to know the processor temperature and its status??

with root permissions i tried with using the proc commd.... it gave io error saying permission denied....
thru these system details are obtaind
/proc/filesystems
/proc/cpuinfo

since im not familiar with its usage,so how this proc cmmd should be used to extract the required info abt the system & display them?

[GNU-Fan]

proc is no command, but is supposed to be directory of files to be read.
Hence cat proc/cpuinfo.

Look for a package lm-sensors.
It provides a tool called sensors.

[impert]

Generally, you need to have lm-sensors installed, and a module to suit your CPU. The command is sensors, but do a bit of googling, because the results may be quite delirious if you don't set it up correctly. Some hardware never seems to give sensible results. There's quite a lot of stuff on the web about lm-sensors for this reason.
There's a how-to on the Ubuntu forums, but since I'm still in short pants on this forum, I'm not allowed to post a link.

[impert]

Now that I've got 15 posts, I'm obviously trustworthy, so here's the link:
HOW TO: Install and configure lm-sensors - Ubuntu Forums
There's also a rather good GUI app called hardinfo.

[ramziur]

i actually wanted a command that gives me all the info....
stat -f filename gives the info of that particular file

isnt there a command to find out the CPU tempt & CPU usage??
I need the command 4that