Safely making changes to remote systems

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Published on Sep 20, 2007 by Frank Wiles

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Safely making changes to remote systems

I stumbled across this post about a great technique for safely making configuration changes to remote systems. Everyone has done it before, the "Oops I just shutdown sshd" or turned off the wrong network interface. Ask Bjørn Hansen shows you how you can use atd to give yourself a safety net when doing these types of operations.