On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Keith Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a link that describes %n and other such things, like %h. > (Ctrl-f %n It's a bit down the page). > > http://www.ibiblio.org/oswg/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/gdm-reference/gdm-reference/x135.html > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nathan Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I submitted a request to the GDM documentation folks. Thanks for the >>> pointer. >>> >>> Rephrasing my question: Let's say I have 50 machine in my cluster, with >>> hostnames "linux01" "linux02" ... "linux50" >>> >>> In previous versions of SL (SL5 and 6 at least), I could modify the login >>> banner to be "%n.university.edu" and then each of the machines would display >>> the appropriate login machine name, "linux01.university.edu" on the linux01 >>> machine (for example). >>> >>> I assume that the %n referred to a shell variable, hostname, but I've never >>> checked. That feature seems to be missing in RHEL7 >>> >>> Nathan >> >> Is there some compelling reason not to use fully qualified hostnames >> on the systems, rather than relying on %n to publish the *short* >> hostname?
I'm afraid that helps answer Nathan's queston, but not mine. Why don't these hosts have valid fully qualified hostnames of [whatever].university.edu ?
