mbmon(1)

📦 version 2.05, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 mbmon — MotherBoard Monitor 💖

okay bestie, welcome to mbmon(1), aka the General Commands Manual entry for your motherboard's little gossip corner 🌡️✨

✨ NAME ✨

mbmon — MotherBoard Monitor 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mbmon [options] <seconds for sleep> (default 5 sec)

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk: this manual page documents mbmon briefly, and the way that it exists at all is because it was written for the Debian distribution — the original program literally does not have a manual page. so this is the vibe we have. periodt 💅

so, recent motherboards have functionalities to monitor the CPU temperatures and the frequency of CPU cooling fans etc. 👑 and like, some programs utilizing these hardware monitoring facilities have been developed for the Microsoft Windows platforms, but no programs seem to exist for PC-UNIX and the X Windows System platforms. iconic of us, honestly.

mbmon used at the command line reports the temperatures, voltages and rpm (rounds per minute) of cooling fans 🔥 and bestie, it can also be used remotely via telnet, thanks to the -P option. main character energy fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — Show summary of options. the little "hi bestie what are my choices" moment 🙈
  • -V, -S, -I, -A — Access method (using "VIA686 HWM directly" | "SMBus" | "ISA I/O port" | "All this methods"). pick your lane, queen 👑
  • -d — Debug mode (any other options except (V|S|I) will be ignored). ngl when debug mode is on, it does NOT care about your other flags. they're getting ignored. it's giving tunnel vision 💀
  • -e [0-2] — set extra temperature sensor to temp. Need -A. like, -A is required, no cap.
  • -p chip — For probing chips. and the chips are literally: chip=winbond|wl784|via686|it87|gl52|lm85|lm80|lm90|lm75
  • -Y — For Tyan Tiger MP/MPX motherboard. special treatment for a special board 🐅
  • -f — Display temperature in Fahrenheit. for my US besties 🌈
  • -c count — Repeat <count> times and exit. know when to leave the party 🎀
  • -P port — Run in daemon mode, using given port for clients. remote monitoring era ✨
  • -T|F [1-7] — print Temperature|Fanspeed according to following styles:
style1: data1
style2: data2
style3: data3
style4: data1 data2
style5: data1 data3
style6: data2 data3
style7: data1 data2 data3

seven styles, seven aesthetics, choose wisely 💅

  • -r — Print TAG and Value format.
  • -u — Print system uptime.
  • -t — Print present time.
  • -n, -N — print hostname (long|short style). long name girlies and short name girlies, both welcome 🫶
  • -i — Print integers in the summary (with -T option). no decimals, just vibes.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

mbmon -P 11000; telnet localhost 11000; sudo killall mbmon
mbmon -c1
mbmon 1 (yeah, real time baby !)

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

/usr/share/doc/mbmon/*

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Nicolas Rueff <n.rueff@tuxfamily.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). thank you Nicolas, you ate that 🫶✨

and that's the whole page bestie!! it's dated November 10, 2003 and it came to you from the General Commands Manual for mbmon(1) — yeah, real time baby 💖 go check your temps, drink some water, slay 🎀

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