Mnyb;534982 Wrote:
>
> These factory resets when you do it wrong is tedious.. and boring to
> reset everything else.
You need a good reset script. When doing dangerous stuff like this
remotely on normal Linux systems (a great example is tweaking the
firewall on a server that's hours away from me), I like to do things
like schedule an 'at' job to run 5 minutes later that restores the old
config file and stop/starts networking. Then I can at least get back in
pretty quickly if I goof badly.
Since Touch doesn't have 'at' or 'cron' facilities, you need to do
something like make a shell script like
Code:
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#!/bin/sh
sleep 300
# you should have saved a known good config to /etc/network/interfaces.orig
cat /etc/network/interfaces.orig > /etc/network/interfaces
ifdown -f wlan0
ifup wlan0
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and then run that in the background. If your new config works, you can
use the 'jobs' command to get the background task ID and 'kill %N' to
stop it. If you new config fails, sit tight and wait for the background
shell script to save you.
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