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  1. Petar Milin says:
    September 26, 2010 at 11:23 am
    IceWeasel 3.5.12 IceWeasel 3.5.12 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100911 Iceweasel/3.5.12 (like Firefox/3.5.12)

    I wonder whether you could give more detailed explanation how to properly add crontab for thinkfan? Moreover, do we need it if we addjust /etc/thinkfan.conf?

    Thanks!
    PM

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    • admin says:
      September 28, 2010 at 12:26 pm
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      Hi having the crontab is not absolutely necessery, however it works well for me that’s why I mentioned it.
      To add crontab type in your terminal for instance “crontab -u root -e”. Then you will have to deal with saving it after you paste what I point in the article should go in the crontab. Here it depends on your text editor if it’s vim or nano. If you’re with vi/vim you need to press “i” when the editor opens and laters press “esc” then “:x!” this will save the crontab and install it. If you’re with nano just place the crontab just like it’s said in the article and press “ctrl+x” this will save the edit.

      Regards,
      Georgi

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  2. Jospeh Milich says:
    January 20, 2011 at 3:17 pm
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    Hello! I’ve read some of your publish right here and uncovered it fascinating and it makes a whole lot of sense. Plus i love your theme below. Thumbs up! Maintain on sharing!

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  3. Stone says:
    May 23, 2011 at 2:27 pm
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    Well I’m sorry, but the values listed there don’t seem to work with the latest thinkfan, for the LOWER limits don’t overlap with the previous UPPER limits.
    I believe some easy adjustments will work.

    Cheers!

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    • admin says:
      May 23, 2011 at 10:46 pm
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      if you have values that work and you can post info about your exact linux version it will be great.
      Hope it might benefit others.

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      • Stone says:
        May 26, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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        just like this: (/etc/thinkfan.conf)
        (0, 38, 42)
        (1, 40, 46)
        (2, 44, 50)
        (3, 48, 54)
        (4, 52, 58)
        (5, 56, 62)
        (6, 60, 66)
        (7, 64, 32767)

        I’m using Arch Linux, kernel 2.6.39, i686 Intel Pentium Dual, ThinkPad R61i.

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  4. kleskjr says:
    July 6, 2011 at 5:48 pm
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    Zdrasti Georgi,

    I have a question concerning the auto-start of the thinkfan daemon. The line “0,30 * * * * killall -HUP thinkfan” restarts the thinkfan every 30 minutes, but it does not start it when I boot the machine. Do you have a suggestion how thinkfan can be started automatically through crontab as well?

    Cheers for the posts,
    Nikolay

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    • admin says:
      July 6, 2011 at 5:57 pm
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      Здрасти Nikolay,

      You can configure /etc/init.d/thinkfan to start up.
      Or if you’re missing the thinkfan script I can put a link here for you.

      Поздрав! 🙂

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  5. nikolay says:
    July 6, 2011 at 6:43 pm
    Chromium 14.0.813.0 Chromium 14.0.813.0 Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Ubuntu 10.04 x64
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    Здрасти и thanks for the fast reply,

    I made a thinkfan_auto script which looks like this:
    #!/bin/bash
    sleep 30 && thinkfan ;

    Then I copied it it /etc/init.d/ and run sudo update-rc.d thinkfan_auto defaults. But the program still doesn’t start at boot.

    Any suggestion on how the script should look like is welcomed.

    Благодаря!
    Николай

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    • admin says:
      July 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm
      Epiphany 2.30.6 Epiphany 2.30.6 Debian GNU/Linux x64 Debian GNU/Linux x64
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      Здрасти и ur welcome 🙂
      You can download the script I use from below link.
      http://www.pc-freak.net/files/thinkfan

      Add the script to be loaded in your runlelvel, the Debian standard desktop runlevel is 2.

      hipo@noah:/etc/init.d$ /sbin/runlevel
      N 2

      Issue the commands to add them in runlevel 2.
      # cd /etc/rc2.d/; ln -sf /etc/init.d/thinkfan S19thinkfan

      To be honest I never get used to update-rc.d 😉

      If I can further help it will be a pleasure.

      Всичко най!
      Георги

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  6. nikolay says:
    July 7, 2011 at 4:11 pm
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    Thanks for the reply Georgi,

    somehow I managed to get it working yesterday. I found the script you posted, and then enabled thinkfan in /etc/default/thinkfan (as said in the script). As I put the program thinkfan (the binary file) in /usr/local/sbin, I had to change the path in the script from DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$NAME to DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/$NAME. At the end I run sudo update-rc.d -f thinkfan start 99 2 3 4 5 . and it worked 🙂

    I don’t get why the scripts in /etc/init.d can not be a simple one line code (like in my previous post). Is that a security reason, or there is something deeper that I can’t understand?

    Благодаря за помощта!
    Поздравления из блога ти, доста интересни статии имаш. Най-вероятно ще се видим пак по коментарите под тях 😉
    Поздрави, Николай

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    • admin says:
      July 7, 2011 at 5:42 pm
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      Ur welcome 😉
      Glad you make it. The reason behind the scripts are not just few lines is that if there are just few lines is versatile, it needs to make different checks related to the service activity up/down restart/stop/start options for the service etc.

      Няма проблем за помощта, радвам се че съм помогнал и че с нещо ти е бил полезен блога.
      Ще се виждаме из коментарите.

      Всичко най!
      Георги

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  7. tm says:
    August 31, 2011 at 2:28 am
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    Is there a way to do this for idiots

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    • admin says:
      August 31, 2011 at 11:49 am
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      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.6.17

      Do that for idiots? 🙂 I think I know what you mean. But I don’t know by so far for another way

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  8. Tamera says:
    March 16, 2012 at 2:19 pm
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    É pá! É que nao quero que te falte nada!!!

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  9. Idiot's advice says:
    February 12, 2013 at 7:40 am
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    Your blog sucks, hard.

    http://sourceforge.net/p/thinkfan/discussion/905019/thread/24c3cd47

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