SPINNER(1) General Commands Manual SPINNER(1)
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 use-
ful for keeping telnet and ssh links from dropping due to inactivity. Many firewalls, and some ISPs drop connections when they are per-
ceived 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
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