RE: DM Numeric custom script monitor

I didn't see an echo `<text_string>` in my example.

And I'm doing cat not rm.

Your right, technically the line could simply be    cat /blah/blah/blah    in a shell script.

But you could also do

RESULTS=`cat /blah/balh/blah`

Then do "something" with $RESULTS

And on and on and on ..... Basically do it the way you want then simply make sure "you're doing what you want".

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Hallo,

>#!/bin/sh

>`cat /my_dir/my_dir/my_file`

is the use of backticks really intended here? This is mostly dangerous!

The contents of the file is executed as a shell command, and

depending on the file permissions anyone might write to the file

(imagine someone uses echo 'rm -fr /* > /my_dir/my_dir/my_file)

Tschau...Thomas

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