[ILUG] don't ya just hate it when...

[Fergal Daly]

Why not wrap your "dangerous" commands in a safety program, so that

init 1

becomes

init hostname 1

and if hostname isn't the name of the machine you're currently on then it
tells you, otherwise it just throws away the first argument and runs

init.real 1

Here it is in perl. Just rename the original to have a .real on the end and
put this script in instead. It won't work with suid programs, you'd need
some C for that and my hangover is really starting to kick in...

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $host = shift;

my $real_host = `/bin/hostname`;

chomp $real_host;

if ($host ne $real_host)
{
  warn "You're on '$real_host' ya spanner\n";
  exit 1;
}

# $0 contains the name we were called with

my $real_command = "$0.real";
exec($real_command, @ARGV) || die "Failed to exec '$real_command': $!";



On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:36:36PM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> I've often found that changing the colour of an xterm (and / or prompt)
> depending on the machine / user was a good way of not doing silly stuff ...
> like root = red on black, easy enough to read, but obvious enough not to rm
> -rf on ...
> 
> P
> 
> > -----Kate Said:-----
> >  I got sick of that years ago, and changed the prompt on the box to set
> > the hostname and user name in the PS1, and in the titlebar of the window
> > (just in case). Well worth doing.
> 
> 
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