> 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
