So I’m working on a server from home.

I do a cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate and it says unknown despite the interface being obviously up, since I’m SSH’ing into the box.

I try to explicitely set the interface up to force the status to say up with ip link set eth0 up. No joy, still unknown.

Hmm… maybe I should bring it down and back up.

So I do ip link set eth0 down and… I drive 15 miles to work to do the corresponding ip link set eth0 up

50 years using Unix and I’m still doing this… 😥

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Lol I’ve locked myself out of so many random cloud and remote instances like this that now I always make a sleep chain or a kill timer with tmux/screen.

    Usually like:

    ./risky_dumb_script.sh ; sleep 30 ; ./undo.sh

    Or

    ./risky_dumb.script.sh

    Which starts with a 30 second sleep, and:

    (tmux) sleep 300 ; kill PID