[Cialug] bash return values [was: enter passwords less]

[Tom Pohl]

Am I the only person to wonder what in the world would take 4 days to  
compile?!? :)

-Tom


On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Aaron Porter wrote:

> On 8/27/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>> When I was a Windows user, I used putty, and I still miss it  
>> somewhat.
>> One thing I did was assign a background color to the terminal window
>> to distinguish different types of systems... i.e. mailservers,
>> databases, etc. I usually prefer a black background but you can  
>> adjust
>> the color slightly towards magenta or blue and it looks black until
>> you compare it to another terminal that is black or one of the other
>> colors.
>
> I had a job doing software configuration management, one of my main
> tasks was nursing the 4 day build process. 4 days of compiling, if
> everything went well. Not so fun. One of my favorite tricks was to set
> my DISPLAY to my home system, open a large xterm for the build process
> and use xtermcontrol to change the background color of the xterm based
> on build status. In my tiny apartment, I could disable my screen saver
> and "keep an eye" on the build without leaving the couch/kitchen/deck
> and without having to carry a pager. Looks like it's even packaged for
> debian these days.
>
> A little case statement in your login scripts and you could have the
> same xterm change color every time you log into a new system.
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