[Q] Posting Notifications from Shell

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Is there anyway to post to the android notification bar from simple shell commands?

I have a script which I run using cron on my linux box which monitors some mission critical services for my business and I would like to port it to my Galaxy Nexus. It's a simple bash script which simply monitors the services with netcat.
I have tried a couple of market apps which don't work.

If you consider installing SL4A on your phone, you have a very powerful environment to make your scripts and doing what you ask requires only a

droid.notify('title', 'message')

You could even have something like this

from socket import * 
import android, os, time, datetime

droid = android.Android()
UDPSock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM) 
UDPSock.bind(('',2800))
Volume()

while 1: 
    data,addr = UDPSock.recvfrom(4*1024) 

    if not data: 
        break 
    else: 
        droid.notify(str(addr[0]), data)   #Make a notify in the bar
        droid.makeToast(data) #Make a small msg
        droid.dialogCreateAlert('MSG_FROM:' + str(addr[0]),data)
        droid.dialogShow() #Big on screen alert
UDPSock.close() # rly?

Code is just a PoC... actually uses python and opens port 2800 UDP on your phone, if you send a packet via udp to your phone, a msg will be displayed (3 times in 3 different ways, unless you remove some line ). You could then make your PC scripts send a packet to your phone and have your notification displayed.

Look into this and this

ell3,
Thanks for the quick reply. I think that's exactly what I was looking for!
Cheers!