External check

[Jocelyn]

Hi,
I did a little script in shell in order to do an external check. The files only have '1' or '0' stored inside. My script work this way.

result=`cat /etc/zabbix/log/$1`
echo $result ;
exit 0;

But zabbix is slow to do those easy check for large number of host. I know external check is not recommanded but I have no other choice.
Do you have an idea to solve the problem?
I'm thinking about putting all the action of the script in a function and call the function with a '&'. Do you think it could solve the problem?

Thanks in advance.