NTPLOGTEMP(1)

✨ NTPLOGTEMP(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for ntplogtemp, part of the NTPsec suite, living in section 1 of the manual. she's a little temperature-logging gremlin and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 💖

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🌡️ NAME 🌡️

ntplogtemp — log temperature data 🥵

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ntplogtemp [-h] [-l LOGFILE] [-o] [-w WAIT] [-v] [-V]

    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
    -l LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE
                          append log data to LOGFILE instead of stdout
    -q, --quiet                                be quiet
    -o, --once            log one line, then exit
    -w WAIT, --wait WAIT  wait WAIT seconds after each log line, default 60
    -v, --verbose         be verbose
    -V, --version         show program's version number and exit

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

so ntplogtemp goes around your whole system collecting temperature readings, like a little thermometer fairy doing her rounds 🌸. The standard user for this is ntpuser, and she needs to have permissions to execute lm_sensors and smartctl — otherwise bestie cannot cook, no cap.

By default she writes the data to stdout once every 60 seconds. The log file looks like this:

# time, sensor, value
1485816568 ZONE0 39.0
1485816568 ZONE1 20.0
1485816568 ZONE2 42.0
1485816568 ZONE3 0.0

Let's break down those columns, because it's giving data ✨:

• Time — the POSIX time of when the log line was written.
• Sensor — the sensor the temperature reading was obtained from.
• Value — the temperature reading in celsius. 🥶🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h, --help — shows usage information and then dips out. classic.
• -l LOGFILE, --logfile LOGFILE — append log data to LOGFILE instead of stdout.
• -q, --quiet — quiet output; will not display errors. 🤫
• -o, --once — log the data one single time, then exit. one and done, periodt.
• -v, --verbose — be verbose. spill the tea ☕
• -w WAIT, --wait WAIT — wait WAIT seconds after each log line. The default is 60 seconds. The minimum wait time is 5 seconds. don't be impatient bestie, there's a floor 🫶
• -V, --version — show program's version number and exit.

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🌈 USAGE 🌈

• ntplogtemp — the simplest use of this program. You can use it to check the temperature readings of Zones, CPU, and disk drives every minute. vibe check on your whole machine, hourly-adjacent 😌
• ntplogtemp -l /var/log/ntpstats/temperature -w 60 & — this will continuously log the temperature data in the background to the file /var/log/ntpstats/temperature, only logging every 60 seconds. set it and forget it, main character energy 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Gary E. Miller
• Keane S. Wolter

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🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

one of the following exit values will be returned:

• 0 (EXIT_SUCCESS) — successful program execution. slay 💖
• 1 (EXIT_FAILURE) — the operation failed or the command syntax was not valid. 😭

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fr fr, that's the whole page. go log some temperatures, bestie 🌡️✨

and that's a wrap!! this page came to you from NTPsec, dated 2026-10-21, and it's the NTPLOGTEMP(1) manual page — take care of her, she's doing her best 💜🦋