| 1 | # $Id: $ |
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| 2 | |
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| 3 | PortSystem 1.0 |
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| 4 | name spinner |
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| 5 | version 1.2.4 |
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| 6 | platforms darwin |
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| 7 | categories sysutils |
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| 8 | maintainers mich@freebsdcluster.org |
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| 9 | description Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity |
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| 10 | long_description \ |
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| 11 | Spinner is a small program that displays a little "spinning" ASCII \ |
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| 12 | character in the top left corner of your terminal. To make this effect \ |
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| 13 | it cycles through punctuation marks like this " - \ | / - \ | / ... " \ |
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| 14 | (try it to see). By default the character is drawn in inverse video \ |
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| 15 | (or your terminal's equivalent). But you can turn this off with the -i \ |
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| 16 | switch. It supports any terminal capable of handling VT100 style escape codes.\ |
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| 17 | \ |
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| 18 | Spinner is useful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to \ |
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| 19 | inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are \ |
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| 20 | perceived as idle. By having spinner running the server is constantly \ |
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| 21 | sending a tiny amount of data over the link, preserving the connection. \ |
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| 22 | Thus (for search engines) Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout preventing, \ |
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| 23 | background daemon process for unix variants including linux. |
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| 24 | homepage http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html |
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| 25 | master_sites http://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/ |
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| 26 | checksums md5 21d5d1c5ae20104f0cd36fdf6b0daa71 |
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| 27 | use_configure yes |
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| 28 | destroot { |
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| 29 | set docdst "${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/spinner" |
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| 30 | system "cd ${worksrcpath} && \ |
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| 31 | install ${name} ${destroot}${prefix}/sbin && \ |
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| 32 | install -d ${docdst} && \ |
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| 33 | install README ${docdst}" |
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| 34 | } |
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