This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. Â As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. Â The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. Â I suppose I could have changed them to have static IP addresses, but that would be too easy 😉
Instead I have written a little program I call FrontDoor that gets loaded by getty and displays some basic information about the host, including things like the IP address and so on. Â Now I can just look at the VM on my desktop and see the IP address at a glance 🙂
Hi Daniel.
The title made me think it was a webcam 🙂
Now I see it is the project you were telling me bout. That is a handy little program.
Dad.