My personal "Cloud infrastructure support"

cloud_support.sh

#!/bin/bash
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# Watches the core temperature and if it's greater than 80 degrees, vmware gets killed #
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temperature=`sensors|grep -i 'core 0'|cut -d' ' -f9|sed s/'[\+|C|°]'//g`
if [ $EUID != 0 ]; then
	echo "This fine piece of script must be run as root."
	echo "And you, $USER, are certainly not root."
	echo -e "\nSomething like \"sudo $0\" might work"
	echo "Or maybe try this: "
	echo "su -c $0"
	exit
fi

echo "The temperature of Core 0 is $temperature°C";
temp=${temperature/.*}
if [ $temp -gt 80 ]
then
	xmessage "Killing vmware after you press OK..."
	echo "Killing vmware..."
	proc=$(ps -A|grep vmware|awk '{print $1}')
	kill -9 $proc
else
	echo "Everything's fine"
fi