RFE: shutdown (was Re: RFC: root/non-root bash prompts different colours?)

[Harald Hoyer]

Jonathan Andrews wrote:
  > Some of us more cautious people use terminals with different backgrounds
> to identify different computers, so changing the default colour for for
> root prompts using ansi would break that setup. My dangerous machine
> (one in a rack I have to drive 200 miles to get to) already has a red
> background on the xterm, so red text as default would be no text at
> all!!  Its a minor point, but I suspect other have similar setups.... If
> people want to play with colours how about changing the dark blue colour
> in 'ls' to one that people can read like cyan, i'm yet to find a
> computer I could read that text on yet - Its only the dark blue, but it
> would save starting a session with 'unalias ls' every time I login to a
> redhat box :-|   ....    
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> 


That reminds me to make an RFE for poweroff/reboot/shutdown to ask for the 
machine's name before proceeding! :)
Does not happen often, but the times it happened it was sometimes very very, 
well unproductive :)