Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu!srp From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Pandora and visual login icons Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 14:55:02 GMT References: <3906@uc.msc.umn.edu> <2014@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 21 gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) writes: >In article <3906@uc.msc.umn.edu> wes@msc.edu asks if there's a way, >for performance reasons, to make Pandora stop checking for icons in >every user's home directory. >We could definitely use this, too. Most of our also have home directories >on other machines, and when Pandora goes looking for a home directory on a >machine that's down, it hangs (and nobody can log in) until the other >machine comes back up! I too asked this to be changed. Last October I got a SCR # for it: 11020 (though my notebook is sorta fuzzy around that time). So it should be on their "do" list. - Scott -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet