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.
3 Answers
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.
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
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.