sysutils/spinner 1.2.4 DragonFly

Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories: sysutils
Package size: 13.5 KiB, 35.0 KiB installed

Description

Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - \ | / - \ | / ... " (try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video (or your terminal's equivalent). But you can turn this off with the -i switch. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes.

Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. Thus (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, background daemon process for Unix variants including Linux.

- Michael L. Hostbaek
[email protected]

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

DragonFly

sysutils/spinner

1.2.4

FreeBSD

sysutils/spinner

1.2.4

HardenedBSD

sysutils/spinner

1.2.4

GhostBSD

sysutils/spinner

1.2.4

Install

Binary package:

pkg install spinner

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/spinner && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The spinner port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing