[1474] in athena10
Re: bashrc should set PS1 or cshrc should not set prompt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Xavid)
Tue Mar 10 12:33:38 2009
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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From: Xavid <xavid@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:32:49 -0400
On 2009/03/10, at 12:25, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> - when the dialups move to Debathena, the "hostname" in the prompt
> is forced to "athena" instead of the actual hostname. (ie:
> "jdreed@athena:~$" Yes, the downside is that users don't know what
> dialup they're logged into, but a) that's what ~/.lastdialup is for;
> b) users should not have to keep track of the dialup hostnames; c)
> users are discouraged from logging in to specific dialup hostnames
> anyway.
I'd be weakly in favor of doing this both for dialups and for cluster
machines. (But maybe not for -managed and below?) Knowing the
hostname in these cases isn't very useful, and people who care can
easily override their prompt/run hostname manually. It also creates
an easy-to-refer-to athena prompt and creates the feeling that cluster
machines and dialups are "the same".
~Xavid
