[smartmontools-support] suggested diff for Example1

[Martin A. B. <ma...@wo...>]

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Hello all,

I have attached a diff to Example1 in the examplscripts directory.  
There are two things that I wanted to improve in this script:

  - The monitoring system (smartmon) monitors disks, so it is very 
    possible (likely in some cases) that the disk to which we wish 
    to write the temporary file is no longer available.  I'm sure 
    this is not news to the smartmontools developers.
  - It is possible, though that a script invoked from the smartd 
    system, doesn't need to rely on the filesystem to actually send 
    output.  If "bash", "cat", "hostname" and "smartctl" are in the 
    filesystem cache, then no reading from disk is required.  Let's 
    send the message down a pipe.

And, by the way, thanks to the developers for this software.  I just 
recently experienced a data loss scare (just a scare, no loss!), and 
I was happy to discover that this software will help me keep better 
tabs on my disks.

Best regards,

- -Martin

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Martin A. Brown --- Wonderfrog Enterprises --- ma...@wo...
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