[1475] in athena10
Re: bashrc should set PS1 or cshrc should not set prompt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Mar 10 12:38:29 2009
Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Xavid <xavid@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:37:30 -0400
On Mar 10, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Xavid wrote:
>
> 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".
I'd love it if this happened on -cluster machines, too, but I had
assumed it would be a hard sell. The value of having an easy-to-
document Athena prompt is tremendous. And I suspect most users who
care about their shell prompt have customized it anyway.
And yes, this should probably not happen for -workstation (managed) or
lower.
-Jon
