{"id":131,"date":"2012-02-19T14:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2012-02-19T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:58:39","slug":"frontdoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"FrontDoor"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. \u00c2\u00a0As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. \u00c2\u00a0The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. \u00c2\u00a0I suppose I could have changed them to have static IP addresses, but that would be too easy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Instead I have written a little program I call FrontDoor<\/a> that gets loaded by getty and displays some basic information about the host, including things like the IP address and so on. \u00c2\u00a0Now I can just look at the VM on my desktop and see the IP address at a glance \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. \u00c2\u00a0As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. \u00c2\u00a0The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. \u00c2\u00a0I suppose I could … <\/p>\n

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