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- From: lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Pandora - alternate images?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.192201.17623@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 19:22:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk> <pqo8988@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
- Lines: 50
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- In <pqo8988@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
-
- >See 'man pandora' for both of these. They can be controlled via
- >passwd.sgi. It is possible that your old passwd.sgi, is now
- >passwd.sgi.O, and you didn't take care of all of the output
- >from 'versions changed' after upgrading. (NIS users can be
- >excluded if they all have home dirs that don't exist on the system,
- >or are NFS mounted in a different place from the local users).
-
- Thanks for the suggestion, but I _did_ check this. The problem is that
- all our users' home directories are NFS mounted on central
- filestores and the department level directories aren't a fine
- enough subdivision to select on. As some workstations are owned by
- particular offices/groups I wanted them to have icons displayed only
- for folk in those offices - the most frequent users.
-
- No matter - it was only a cosmetic requirement.
-
- I wrote:
- >| Now that I'm using the 'noiconlogin' option instead, the second
- >| problem I have come across is that there isn't a (documented) way
- >| to override the pandora image file name....
- [..text deleted...]
-
- Dave Olson wrote:
- >Can't be done, unfortunately, without using a binary editor on
- >the pandora executable.
-
- Agreed, but I did come up with a possible bodge just after I left
- for home (isn't it always the way? :-)
-
- Link (symbolically) the pandora image file to somewhere that *is*
- local to the workstation (like /usr/lib or /usr/etc) and then put the
- image there. Even better, link that second path to a central NFS
- mounted repository of images, dependent on the host name, viz:
-
- ln -s /usr/lib/PandoraImage /usr/demos/data/images/Pandora
- ln -s /usr/local/login-pics/`cat /etc/sys_id` /usr/lib/PandoraImage
-
- (Yecch! It's horrible! I'll have to try it sometime...)
-
- Thanks for your help with this!
-
- Cheers,
-
- Laurence Tyler
- York University Computing Service, UK
-
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