Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!lvc From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: and another unix joke Summary: jokes Message-ID: <1293@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 23 Sep 88 14:29:01 GMT References: <26159@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 14 One joke that got a lot of laughs here was to change a users PS1 prompt while they were logged in by adb'ing their shell process. This is a good way to learn about the UNIX(tm) operating system! I used this ksh alias once on someone, took a month for them to figure out what was going on: alias ls='echo "sh: ls: not found" ; unalias ls' On a UNIX PDP 11/70 system I mounted a floppy disk on a users home directory, boy they got very anxious very fast! -- Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM