[ale] Cross platform notification

[James Sumners]

I think he's balking at even having netcat installed on the system. My
opinion is that if you have someone with enough access to the system to run
nc in that manner then you have bigger problems. And if it's a legitimate
user doing it without understanding the problem, you still have bigger
problems.

On Saturday, January 11, 2014, Alex Carver wrote:

> Right that's understandable but that's NOT what I'm doing with netcat.
> I'm using netcat to SEND, not receive.  The receiving program is a full
> program that does only one function not a random netcat listening on a
> port.  The daemon that I want to give the ability to send notifications
> to other clients has its output formatted and sent via netcat to those
> clients:
>
> $ daemon.program | notifier.processing.script &
>
> #notifier script:
> if ( input == some.condition )
>    cat condition.message.file | netcat remote.client notification.port
> fi
>
> There's no listener here at all with netcat.
>
>
>

-- 
James Sumners
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personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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