Differentiate Your Production Shell

Posted Sat Jan 14 @ 12:18:15 PM PDT 2012

I have multiple shell windows open (using PuTTY of course) all the time. Typically, they are shells for my development box. But when I need to make some changes to the production server, I will have a shell open for that.

Unfortunately, it is really easy to start typing commands into the wrong shell window, without realizing it (especially since my development and productions boxes are almost identical in their configurations). On more than one occasion, I have done something to the production machine when I really meant to do it on my dev box.

To prevent that from happening again, I changed the background color of my shell on the production machine to this awful red color.

Now I don't have any trouble determining which machine I'm on.

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