Yes thank you Matthew for your suggestion as well as a good laugh. However I think safeguards could be put into place to protect us against our own demise. Much like "rm" does if "rm -rf /" is run.
-----Original Message----- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Patton Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 8:11 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 'rhncfg-client get' downloading all config files On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:48:27 -0400, Mullis, Josh (CCI-Atlanta) <josh.mul...@cox.com> wrote: > Which file needs to be modified to change the "get" function of > "rhncfg-client" to require a "--all" flag or something similar? > When "rhncfg-client get" is run, it grabs all files in all config > channels which in my opinion can be dangerous. Come now, this is Linux. We design systems to deliberately allow dangerous functionality and when you get bit by our unsafe designs, we laugh and point at you and cluck our tongues at your noob misfortune. /sarc rhn-actions-control --disable-deploy is the closest thing but it doesn't stop anything but the SCHEDULED deployment of files which is a different animal. 'rhncfg-client' should be handled with extreme care, much like glicerin and 'rm -fr'. -- Cloud Services Architect, Senior System Administrator InfoRelay Online Systems (www.inforelay.com) _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list