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| author | Tilman Keskinoz <arved@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-01-08 11:50:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Tilman Keskinoz <arved@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-01-08 11:50:14 +0000 |
| commit | 6a471b8256a4be30465b8b6637d4daffada67ad9 (patch) | |
| tree | f53221d5745a05043c87621cd229d3783b70eec1 /sysutils/spinner | |
| parent | 77ee0ebeca9f533d46edcb3931e2162706b8bb9c (diff) | |
| download | freebsd-ports-6a471b8256a4be30465b8b6637d4daffada67ad9.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/spinner')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/Makefile | 29 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/distinfo | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/pkg-comment | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/spinner/pkg-plist | 3 |
5 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/Makefile b/sysutils/spinner/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0c26f1e7a2ef --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +# ex:ts=8 +# New ports collection makefile for: spinner +# Date created: Dec 16, 2002 +# Whom: mich@freebsdcluster.org +# +# $FreeBSD$ +# + +PORTNAME= spinner +PORTVERSION= 1.1 +CATEGORIES= sysutils +MASTER_SITES= http://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/ + +MAINTAINER= mich@freebsdcluster.org + +DOCSDIR= ${PREFIX}/share/doc/${PKGNAMEPREFIX}${PORTNAME} +USE_REINPLACE= yes + +post-patch: + @${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|-O2 ||g ; \ + s|gcc |\$$\(CC\) |g' ${WRKSRC}/Makefile +do-install: + ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/spinner ${PREFIX}/bin +.if !defined(NOPORTDOCS) + ${MKDIR} ${DOCSDIR} + ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/README ${DOCSDIR}/README +.endif + +.include <bsd.port.mk> diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/distinfo b/sysutils/spinner/distinfo new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ca12231f0a02 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/distinfo @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +MD5 (spinner-1.1.tar.gz) = f4f6046c2c8b760659288bce03111a53 diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-comment b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0c97a7c90430 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-comment @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..177f70f892bb --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +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. + +WWW: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html + + - Michael L. Hostbaek + mich@freebsdcluster.org diff --git a/sysutils/spinner/pkg-plist b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-plist new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4e82e9ee7127 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/spinner/pkg-plist @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +bin/spinner +%%PORTDOCS%%share/doc/spinner/README +%%PORTDOCS%%@dirrm share/doc/spinner |