[clug] Spreading the joy!

Brett Worth brett at worth.id.au
Wed Oct 27 00:15:50 GMT 2004


On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:33:47AM +1000, Peter Barker wrote:

> My most recent: brain outage - instead of a "/etc/init.d/iptables
> restart", doing an "iptables --flush".
> 
> On a machine either a four hour drive or a rather embarassing phonecall
> away (which would /you/ take? :)

I support some machines interstate so whenever I do something that I think
might break it (especially with iptables)  I preceed it with:

# at now + 5 minutes
at> init 6
at> <EOT>
# 

If my change works I do an atrm to disarm it.

-- 
Brett


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