Startup Script Question

[Dunuin]

Hi,

I wrote a bash script to control the fan speed with ipmitool. If I run it from console as root with "bash /mnt/SSDpool/localData/scripts/fanctrl.sh" it works fine but if I use the same command or script via the "init/shutdown script" webinterface I get the error:
/mnt/SSDpool/localData/scripts/fanctrl.sh: line 37: ipmitool command not found

Line 37 is:
CPUSENSOR=$(ipmitool sensor get "CPU Temp")

Which user runs the init scripts? Does that user didn't have the rights to run the ipmitool?

 

[colmconn]

Use the pull path to ipmitool in the script since it appears to not be on the PATH hence the error

 

[Glorious1]

Hi,

I wrote a bash script to control the fan speed with ipmitool. If I run it from console as root with "bash /mnt/SSDpool/localData/scripts/fanctrl.sh" it works fine but if I use the same command or script via the "init/shutdown script" webinterface I get the error:
/mnt/SSDpool/localData/scripts/fanctrl.sh: line 37: ipmitool command not found

Line 37 is:
CPUSENSOR=$(ipmitool sensor get "CPU Temp")

Which user runs the init scripts? Does that user didn't have the rights to run the ipmitool?

Right, for some reason in scripts you have to give the path to many commands like ipmitool. I think you can find that with which ipmitool.

 

[sretalla]

I wrote a bash script to control the fan speed with ipmitool.

Have you seen the work done by @Stux and @Kevin Horton ? I think you're probably re-inventing a wheel there.

 

[Glorious1]

Yes, and there's mine, which I think Kevin's is based on.

 

[sretalla]

Yes, and there's mine, which I think Kevin's is based on.

Indeed the PID logic is the core of the whole story, so apologies that I left you off the list.

 

[Dunuin]

That works:
CPUSENSOR=$(/usr/local/bin/ipmitool sensor get "CPU Temp")

My script is simple and ugly but works now.
I bought a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev2 because I had seen a FreeNAS build with my X10SSL-F mainboard so I could be sure it will fit. The problem is, that the fan of that cooler is a little bit loud at 50% PWM and will stop spinning if the PWM is falling below 30%. And the only other option the IPMI webinterface allows is 25%-100% so the fan is always failing at 25% PWM and as soon as the RPM reaches 0 the IPMI panics and boosts PWM up to 100%, so the fan is switching between 0 and 2100 RPM all 10 seconds. But if you set the minimum fan threshold to 30% via ipmitool it will run at stable 900-1000 RPM and is not recognizable. But you have to do it again after every boot, because the IPMI wont save the threshold permanently.

 

[sretalla]

The scripts I mentioned allow for a minumum no-stall speed.

Anyway, go your own way if that works for you.