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[Meme transcription:]

– Hey, why is the shell prompt on the production server red now?
– Earlier: me@prod:~$ docker container remove --force the-application

Protip: If you’re used to shutting down your computer via the CLI, make it a habit to use an alias like off.

This way you will never, ever turn off a remote server by accidentally using throwing poweroff at a residual SSH connection.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Here we simply have a tool that on dangerous commands like power off or reboot asks for the host name of the machine in question. Didn’t stop me from accidentally rebooting a machine once, but no matter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sounds interesting. do you have the name of the tool or is it a custom script

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Holy shit that’s brilliant

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you’re using a descendant of Debian, you will find a line like this in your ~/.bashrc file:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$

The 32m part controls the color of the username. (\u). 1 is red, 2 is green (as seen in the user and host part, \u@\h), 3 (as seen for the directory, \w) is blue.

You can use this to distinguish different hosts by color.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh, so we're Winkelschleifern prompts now?

As normal user, the username is also green, and the # is a $

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Zangendeutsch leckt oder Autokorrektur?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Zangendeutsch war zu verlockend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Zangendeutsch ist zu hoch für mich.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Shell colors change the game really. I did this at work; when I'm on the admin server my prompt is rainbow, other servers black (I use a solarized light terminal). It has saved me so many times.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

this is honestly my worst fear as someone who suffers from ocd and compulsive checking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Man it's late here but I just don't get it. Isn't tmux enough to separate sessions then you just look before you run something like this?