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+check_temp
+
+A small Nagios plugin that checks the CPU (or M/B) temperature with lm-sensors.
+It's written in Bash and uses some sed & awk.
+Default is to check the CPU temperature but this can be changed to for example 
+the motherboard temperature with a "--sensor" argument. 
+The plugin complies with the guidelines, for example uses -w -c -v arguments 
+etc. It also does some basic sanity checks and has a exit 3 catchall.
+
+The plugin were submitted to Nagios Exchange in 2011.
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+check_temp THANKS file
+
+check_temp was originally written by Jack-Benny Persson.
+Some kind people has been contributing by reporiting problems, suggesting
+improvements or submitting code.
+Here is a list of these kind people.
+
+Chad Columbus		ccolumbu@hotmail.com
+