sysutils/spinner 1.2.4
Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity
- Repository
- FreeBSD ports
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- Categories
- sysutils
- Package size
- 13.8 KiB, 33.7 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]
Install
As a binary package — by origin, or by package name:
pkg install sysutils/spinner
pkg install spinnerFrom the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/spinner/ && make install cleanTo depend on this port in another port's Makefile:
RUN_DEPENDS= spinner>0:sysutils/spinnerPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | aarch64 | amd64 | armv6 | armv7 | i386 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD:14:latest | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 |
| FreeBSD:14:quarterly | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | n/a | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 |
| FreeBSD:15:latest | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | n/a | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 |
| FreeBSD:15:quarterly | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:latest | 1.2.4 | 1.2.4 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| FreeBSD:16:quarterly | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Dependencies
The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.
The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
Options name: sysutils_spinner
| Option | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DOCS | off | Build and/or install documentation |
- 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
Files
pkg-plist 2
- sbin/spinner
- share/doc/spinner/README
distinfo 1
| File | Size | SHA256 |
|---|---|---|
| spinner-1.2.4.tar.gz | 76501 | 13419c4410db739020532e0628e1b6f7321db102739f3b1b88f105b29a2fcbb2 |
Master sites 1
- http://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/
Commit history 0
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