| Port details |
- flasher Monitors log or mail files for writes, and flashes a keyboard LED
- 1.3_1 sysutils
 =2      1.3Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: freebsd@nesbitt.ca
- Port Added: 2002-03-22 23:39:37
- Last Update: 2024-03-21 08:57:58
- Commit Hash: 78d0d94
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- License: not specified in port
- WWW:
- http://www.unixporting.com/downloads/flasher/
- Description:
- Flasher monitors changes to one or more files, and indicates the
number of writes to these files by briefly flashing a console LED
once for each write. The flashing sequence is repeated, after a
brief pause, until the files have been read. As the files are
subsequently read, the number of LED flashes is reduced. When all
monitored files have been read, the console LED will be disabled.
The most obvious use is to monitor specific system log or mail files.
Multiple LEDs can be used. Each possible LED (-c, -n or -s) takes
a list of colon-separated file arguments. For example, when invoked
as:
# ./flasher -s /var/log/messages:/var/mail/root
the Scroll Lock LED will flash once for each write made to either
of these files, until the files are read. When /var/log/messages
has been read, the Scroll Lock LED will continue to flash once for
each write that has been made to /var/mail/root, until it also has
been read.
The list of files can include files that don't yet exist.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - Dependency lines:
-
- flasher>0:sysutils/flasher
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/flasher/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install sysutils/flasher
- pkg install flasher
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: flasher
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- SHA256 (flasher-1.3.tar.gz) = 27a3586e090377cda7c00807ce6925caedd8ea3658ce45106e2898d027c09eaa
SIZE (flasher-1.3.tar.gz) = 6121
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- This port has no dependencies.
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- sysutils_flasher
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
1.3_1
21 Mar 2024 08:57:58
 |
Christian Weisgerber (naddy) |
sysutils/*: Move man pages to share/man
Approved by: portmgr (blanket) |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner) |
1.3
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above  ) |
1.3
20 Jul 2022 14:23:05
|
Tobias C. Berner (tcberner) |
sysutils: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* <jsmith@resonatingmedia.com>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Landwehr <aaron@snaphat.com>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Adrian Chadd
* Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
* Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@FreeBSD.org>
* Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
* Aldis Berjoza <aldis@bsdroot.lv>
* Alex Deiter <alex.deiter@gmail.com> (Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above ) |
1.3
06 Apr 2021 14:31:07
|
Mathieu Arnold (mat) |
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles. |
1.3
26 Jun 2014 16:51:43
 |
vanilla |
Stagify.
Approved by: portmgr@ (blanket approval) |
1.3
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
|
bapt |
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils) |
1.3
19 Mar 2011 12:38:54
|
miwi |
- Get Rid MD5 support |
1.3
15 Nov 2005 17:04:17
|
mnag |
Distfile was updated to include new contact information
Update MASTER_SITES
Add SHA256
PR: 88926
Submitted by: murray@nesbitt.ca (maintainer) |
1.3
02 Nov 2005 10:40:27
|
edwin |
Update port: sysutils/flasher to correct maintainer contact info
The old maintainer email address is not working. I am the
same person.
PR: ports/88394
Submitted by: Murray Nesbitt <freebsd@nesbitt.ca> |
1.3
02 Nov 2005 10:37:43
|
edwin |
Reset maintainer:
<nouser@gls-store.com> (expanded from <murray@unixporting.com>): unknown user:
"nouser" |
1.3
31 Mar 2004 03:12:58
|
trevor |
SIZEify (maintainer timeout) |
1.3
06 Feb 2004 13:12:53
|
trevor |
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed). |
1.3
21 Feb 2003 13:28:59
|
knu |
De-pkg-comment. |
1.3
27 Mar 2002 07:15:39
|
pat |
Update to 1.3
PR: 36362
Submitted by: maintainer |
1.2
18 Mar 2002 23:10:09
|
petef |
Add flasher 1.2, monitors log or mail files for writes, and flashes
a keyboard LED.
PR: 35768
Submitted by: Murray Nesbitt <murray@unixporting.com> |
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