[ale] Cross platform notification

[Alex Carver]

The only user on any of the systems that have netcat is me so barring
someone hacking in remotely I don't have anything to worry about. :)

On 1/11/2014 15:24, James Sumners wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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