Add sensor based on executable shell command about mate-sensors-applet HOT 5 CLOSED

I think we should leave that for next dev cycle.
I am complete busy with other releasing stuff.
Sadly, my old 3ware hardware-raid-controller-card is incompatible with my new mobo, so i can't test old scripts for reading temps of disks behind a hardware-raid array.
With the card i used commands like this with a script.

#!/bin/bash

smartctl -d 3ware,0 -A /dev/twa0 | grep Temperature_Celsius | awk '{print $10}'

I used the script with the command applet from xfce at this time.
I recal that i changed permissions of /dev/twa0 device with the rc.local script to make it readable for my common user.
So this should be the way to test temps from smartctl or hdtemp with a command.

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I don't mean this for 1.20 right now...
OK, If I don't have to worry about the permissions, this shouldn't be so difficult.

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I am not really sure any more about this plugin.
As personal i don't use a hardware-raid-controller any more.
And i don't know if this is unsecure to suggest a user to change permission for devices /dev/
@lukefromdc
What do you think?

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Not sure about this, but I suspect if a user could change ALL the permissions in /dev, then that user would gain access to all devices on the box and I suspect there would somehow be a way to leverage that into privilige escalation by gaining user priviliges on / as / is on a device listed in /dev . Thus, this needs more research.

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How about instead of allowing a full shell command, one could only set up a file.
This would then be read by the plugin every refresh time for a double.
How the user gets a double value into the file is not my problem.

We could write an example in the documentation to set up a cron job to write to the file...

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