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From: ashley@cheops.eecs.unsw.oz (Ashley Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: How to make the DM display a node name
Message-ID: <1504@cheops.eecs.unsw.oz>
Date: 14 Mar 90 00:02:27 GMT
References: <6923@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Organization: EE & CS, Uni N.S.W., Sydney, Australia
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You could just insert a pseudo user, for example, nodeinfo (with no 
password), which could have a small shell script as its shell, to 
display (in the display manager window) the name and id of the node.

I was hoping the folks in charge of our network would perhaps do this, 
but alas ...

You still have to login though. I agree with you that it would be much 
nicer (and rather obvious I feel) to display the node name (and perhaps 
the node id) at the login prompt.

Perhaps you aren't supposed to know! The network is the computer ... Its
all transparent ... :-)

Cheers,
Ashley Aitken.
ashley@cheops.eecs.unsw.oz.au