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I need to know when a particular system i'm remotely connected to disconnected - so i'd like a way to prefix my terminal commands and output with a timestamp, preferably temporarily- i'd find it an annoyance in most other cases. currently i'm using yakuake/konsole with bash, but if need be, i can use something else.

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export PROMPT_COMMAND=date

will make bash print the date before issuing each prompt. That may be enough if the prompt returns on your local machine when the remote system disconnects.

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You can simply use command-to-connect-remote-shell; date and you will get time of disconnection.

To not forget to add date every time you can add these lines to your .bashrc

function connect {
 your-connect-cmd $@
 date
}

And then just type connect YOUROPTIONS

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You can add

export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "

to your .bashrc to add timestamps for used commands.

I haven't found any terminal emulator that supports timestamps.

You can try to patch bash to support syslog: http://www.juzzy.com/index.php/files/4-bash (but I'm not sure it works or is it good idea at all).

I think the best option is to wrap your program you use to connect into some bash script that will log date after disconnect.

Another option is to monitor your network traffic.

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