Re: following an ssh chain

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Marty Landman wrote:
> I've got 3 'nix boxes on my office lan. Sometimes I'll open an ssh 
> session to one of them from my windoz workstation, then ssh from that 
> session to another, then the the third.
>
> Anyone know of a simple way for me to know where I'm at? IOW hostname 
> will always tell me which box my session is currently on, but how can 
> I find that I started on moe, the ssh'd to curly, and finally from 
> curly ssh'd over to shemp?
>
> Gets things are just a little slow right now. :)
>
> Marty
I was reading about something like this recently in an old issue of 
Linux Gazette.  Issue #14 2¢ Tip "More on Xterm Titlebar Tip".  You can 
put your current $HOSTNAME and such in the Title Bar.

http://linuxgazette.net/issue14/lg_tips14.html#xterm

Hope this helps...  :)

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