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From: Todd on 22 Feb 2010 02:33 On 02/21/2010 04:04 PM, Rahul wrote: > tar -czvf foo.tar.gz > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > I have stole this one for several of my scripts. I add "Bummer" to it: echo "... Cowardly exiting. Bummer." :-) -T
From: Robert Heller on 22 Feb 2010 08:24 At Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:33:22 -0800 Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > > On 02/21/2010 04:04 PM, Rahul wrote: > > tar -czvf foo.tar.gz > > tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > > > I have stole this one for several of my scripts. > I add "Bummer" to it: > > echo "... Cowardly exiting. Bummer." > > :-) > > -T > > > sudo has (had?) a compile time option to cause the messages displayed for password failures to be "more humanlike" / "insulting". There was a rotating/randomized set of messages. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
From: Charlie Gibbs on 22 Feb 2010 13:15 In article <hltc02$45v$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, todd(a)invalid.com (Todd) writes: > On 02/21/2010 04:04 PM, Rahul wrote: > >> tar -czvf foo.tar.gz >> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive > > I have stole this one for several of my scripts. > I add "Bummer" to it: > > echo "... Cowardly exiting. Bummer." If you ask xv to display a nonexistent file, it pops up a message box that says: "Can't opoen file <name>. No such file or directory." The button you click to close the box is labeled "Bummer!" -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Josh Holland on 22 Feb 2010 16:45 On 2010-02-22, Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> wrote: > sudo has (had?) a compile time option to cause the messages displayed for > password failures to be "more humanlike" / "insulting". There was a > rotating/randomized set of messages. > It's not even compile-time. Just add "Defaults insults" on the end of your /etc/sudoers file and rude messages await. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland <jrh(a)joshh.co.uk> http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland
From: Robert Heller on 22 Feb 2010 17:34
At Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Josh Holland <jrh(a)joshh.co.uk> wrote: > > On 2010-02-22, Robert Heller <heller(a)deepsoft.com> wrote: > > sudo has (had?) a compile time option to cause the messages displayed for > > password failures to be "more humanlike" / "insulting". There was a > > rotating/randomized set of messages. > > > > It's not even compile-time. Just add "Defaults insults" on the end of > your /etc/sudoers file and rude messages await. Damn. I does not seem to work with the CentOS 5.4 (sudo-1.6.9p17-5.el5). I guess RedHat builds sudo to be 'clean' for their enterprise customer base... Sigh. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ |