monitoring for IO in Nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

Alexander Harvey wrote:
> That doesn't look like a Solaris script to me but as far as your coding is
> concerned, my thoughts are
> 

[ excellent and non-disputed points removed ]

> (iv) for security you ought to use full paths to all of your binaries:
> i.e.
> /usr/bin/echo
> instead of
> echo
> 

"echo" is a built-in feature of pretty much all shells, so just using 
plain 'echo' is a perfectly viable and more performance friendly option.

A better solution, for security's sake, is to force the $PATH to a safe 
value at the beginning of the script and not bother with full paths.

As a last note, "echo" is required to exist on the root partition, which 
places it in /bin on all systems I've ever come across.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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