On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 23:05:04 -0400 John Sellens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Sat, 2020/08/29 09:20:35PM -0400, William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | We had to do it manually, one jump at a time, making note (on | paper) where we were each jump. :-) There's a reason why my shell prompt includes the fully-qualified hostname. (And userid, if it's not my normal one.) I've seen people colour code their xterms by hostname as well. If you're "clever", you can probably change your xterm title string as you go, so you window title could end up with a label like: jumphost1 -> nexthop -> 3rdhop -> dbserver (e.g. xtitle from http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/xtitle )
I have not really thought of also allocating different colours, so simple, so obvious and that is such a cool add, thank you! (guess who is right now busy playing with various colours :) ) you could also combine hops into different screens depending on whether a hop is a hub, node, container, disposable, trip or whatever (and also include that in .bash_profile) by adding -t and screen -dr pts-3 so I can have something like: hop1 -> nexthop_19216810-74-p92-pts-2-fallback -> route7_ipv4-p22-pts-3 -> tripwire_ipv4 -> server1-etc-etc (so the ssh can look something like - ssh -t nexthop screen -dr pts-3, if you are using standard/normal screen of course) I usually add some of the ipv4/6 (and sometimes where I use zebra even add the as/bgp/etc) so I can instantly know where I am (or where I am supposed to be) - other useful things some may consider adding is lag (or average lag) so that you can even drop and connect different screens based on network (or you can have timers/cron/whatever running the screen connections) - depending on how much tinfoil you are wearing, of course :) Andre