Jul 22

Introducing crankd

Awhile back I posted a kicker replacement which was also a PyObjC promo. Since then, kicker-replacement has advanced and gained the ability to handle filesystem events and workspace notifications and is now available on Google Code:

http://pymacadmin.googlecode.com

Kok-Yong Tan was kind enough to suggest a new name: crankd. I've updated the repository and even engaged in (gasp) random acts of documentation by adding a wiki page describing how to use crankd for policy-based proxy settings, in this case by enabling an OpenSSH SOCKS proxy when on a remote network as demoed at WWDC.