Thanks Andrew. I started using colored prompts to give visual cues as to whether I am on a local or remote machine.
This was many years ago that this happened. --b On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Andrew Reid <rei...@bellatlantic.net>wrote: > > I had a case where it had snowed, and instead of driving 50 miles in snow > > and ice with dodgy DC drivers, I'd work from home. Had my laptop, was > doing > > work. Well, they scheduled a meeting for that afternoon (at about lunch > > time), so I got ready and headed in to the office. I typed halt in a > window > > on my machine, and went to get my stuff together. Came back a few minutes > > later and found the laptop was still up. Had inadvertantly (I blame > > focus-follows-mouse) shut down a remote box, our production webserver... > > You can use "molly-guard" to protect against this -- installed on the > remote system, it prompts for confirmation if a shutdown, reboot, halt, > or poweroff command is entered in a remote shell. > > <http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/molly-guard> > > There's a legend that the name comes from an actual little girl named > Molly, who was visiting the workplace and tried out the shiny red button. > > -- A. > -- > Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/201109142153.00984.rei...@bellatlantic.net > >
