From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net)
Date: Thu 17 May 2001 - 22:24:21 IST
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:36:36PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) thought:
> 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 ...
Until the day that the box you're working on somehow fails to show colours
and you do something silly as root 'cos the prompt wasn't red... (Just
like I do really)
Conor
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