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

[Glen Gray]

Won't that break the bootup sequence ?

Glen

On 17 May 2001 16:08:37 +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
> 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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