On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Keith Smith <[log in to unmask]> 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Nathan Moore <[log in to unmask]> 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 ?