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?