Re: goad status

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> Hmm. How  about 3 checks.
> 1. check for the NAMESERVER variable (transered by telnet)
> 2. check for the DISPLAY and try to get the ior from X
> 3. check ~/.nameserver.ior

(1) looks good.  (2) looks good, but we run into the distributed
problems mentioned earlier.

(3) is bad.  because most NFS setups would end up sharing your home
account across machines.  You really want to make the file-system
based approach use a local file, something like
/tmp/orbit-$user/name-server-ior.

Migue.