On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 08:44, jdd wrote:
Le 16/03/2017 à 08:24, Per Jessen a écrit :
Great, now I just need to write the script and have it run on every start-up (just in case the hostname changes),
why should a hostname change? It's even no so simple to make a change that don't break the install (it's not sufficient to change with the hostname function)
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but adding the hostname to the login screen ought to be a matter for vi and a config file.
copy paste a script is not more difficult
what is the use of displaying this info, on the beginning (to help find a suitable solution)?
jdd
Think of bigger environs, a office with more than say 4 desktops, or a classroom, esp. in conjunction with "hostname-via-dhcp", and service done mostly remote, or even via puppet or similar tools, or even full-blown pxe / nfs setups. I've done similar setups during my time in university / student-admin during the late 1990ies, most of the time we used xdm, which made that task easy. Yeah, easy config via fully documented config-file seems to go the way of the dodo, at least where desktops / GUI are concerned. - Yamaban.