NAME¶
spinner - Sends small packets over a idle link
SYNOPSIS¶
spinner [options]
DESCRIPTION¶
Spinner is an anti-idle program that displays a little "spinning"
ASCII character in the top left corner of your terminal.
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.
OPTIONS¶
- -f <path>
- Set pid file path (default ~/.spinner.pid)
- -F
- Do *NOT* create a pid file
- -I
- Do *NOT* use inverse video for spinner
- -l <path>
- Set log file path (for debugging). Off by default.
- -L
- Display the license
- -n
- Send null characters (no visible output)
- -p <priority>
- Specifies process priority to use
- -P
- Do *NOT* change process priority (default is to make
nice)
- -r
- Reset term on quit (use if you get left in inverse a
lot)
- -R
- Reset the term and Quit immediately.
- -t <tty path>
- Specify path of TTY to which to write
- -T
- Ignore incompatible TERM environment variable setting
- -u
- Delay is in microseconds instead of seconds
- -v
- Verbose mode (lots of output)
AUTHOR¶
Joe Laffey
DEBIAN MAINTAINER¶
This man page was created for Debian by Jesus Climent