On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nathan Moore <ntmo...@gmail.com> 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?
