D'oh! moments

dsr at tao.merseine.nu dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Wed May 14 22:27:24 EDT 2003


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:58:05PM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> Today I did that from a terminal window and found myself saying
> "Why is it taking so long?" before realizing that i had accidentally
> done it in a window where I was ssh'd in to the server.  That smarts.

Preventative measure: when I do something routinely like that, I alias
it to a mnemonic... only on the machines where it's a good idea to do
it.

So:

alias gohome="sudo ifconfig eth0 down"

server$ gohome
bash: gohome: command not found

-dsr-

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