Also in case this helps anyone, for the daemon to function and read /etc/i8kmon.conf and control the fan automatically with your specified values you need to add --auto to the arguments in /etc/init.d/i8kmon
I8KMON_ARGS="--daemon --nouserconfig --auto"
Also in case this helps anyone, for the daemon to function and read /etc/i8kmon.conf and control the fan automatically with your specified values you need to add --auto to the arguments in /etc/init.d/i8kmon ARGS="- -daemon --nouserconfig --auto"
I8KMON_