# $Id: Portfile 50984 2009-05-14 21:08:43Z and.damore@macports.org $ PortSystem 1.0 name spinner version 1.2.4 platforms darwin categories sysutils maintainers freebsdcluster.org:mich description Keep ssh and telnet connections from dropping due to inactivity long_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 Spinner is an anti-dle, timeout \ preventing, background daemon process for unix variants including linux. homepage http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html master_sites http://downloads.laffeycomputer.com/current_builds/spinner/ checksums md5 21d5d1c5ae20104f0cd36fdf6b0daa71 use_configure yes destroot { set docdst "${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/spinner" system "cd ${worksrcpath} && \ install ${name} ${destroot}${prefix}/sbin && \ install -d ${docdst} && \ install README ${docdst}" }