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
mich@FreeBSD.org
===> The following configuration options are available for spinner-1.2.4:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Move more WWW entries from pkg-descr files into Makefiles
The WWW: lines in the pkg-descr files of these ports where not at the
end of those files and have been missed in prior conversion runs.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
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>
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Add spinner, a small util that draws a spinning ASCII character to keep ssh and
telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity.
PR: 46289
Submitted by: Michael L. Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org>
