Competition Time! – seeking a name for "kicker-replacement" (We have a Winner!)
You might have read some of our previous articles talking about using kicker to perform actions on network status changes.
This was always an unsupported solution, and with Leopard it turns out that Apple no longer needed kicker, and so they got rid of it.
Chris Adams and I started kicking around some ideas in Python, and the result is an incredibly flexible framework for triggering events on any change to the SystemConfiguration API, NSWorkspace notifications, and filesystem changes via FSEvents.
You can find this along with some other useful Python Mac sysadmin utilities at the Google Code site pymacadmin.
Anyway, there's a problem.
We need a name.
[Edit: 2008/07/23 – We have a winner! Kok-Yong Tan came up with "cranker" and the primary daemon will be called "crankd" ]
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