diff --git a/plugins/other/hddtemp b/plugins/other/hddtemp
index 5d3053b0..a20154b2 100755
--- a/plugins/other/hddtemp
+++ b/plugins/other/hddtemp
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@
 #
 #%# family=contrib
 
-HDDTEMP=/usr/sbin/hddtemp
+hddtemp=${hddtemp:-/usr/sbin/hddtemp}
 
 if [ "$1" = "autoconf" ]; then
-        if [ -x "$HDDTEMP" ]; then
+        if [ -x "$hddtemp" ]; then
                 echo yes
                 exit 0
         else
@@ -55,10 +55,8 @@ if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
         echo 'graph_args --base 1000 -l 0'
         echo 'graph_vlabel temp in °C'
         echo 'graph_category sensors'
-        #for a in $drives ; do echo $a.label $a ; done
-        for a in $drives ; do echo $a.label $a `hddtemp -q /dev/$a | cut -d: -f 2` ; done
+        for a in $drives ; do echo $a.label $a `$hddtemp -q /dev/$a | cut -d: -f 2` ; done
         exit 0
 fi
 
-for a in $drives ; do printf "$a.value $(hddtemp -n -q /dev/$a)\n" ; done
-
+for a in $drives ; do printf "$a.value $($hddtemp -n -q /dev/$a)\n" ; done