feisty_meow.git
3 weeks agoremoved squish dirs code to squish current
Fred Hamster [Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:06:14 +0000 (07:06 -0400)]
removed squish dirs code to squish current

if there were no parameters, it happily started squishing every directory in the current dir.
i typed it accidentally with no parameters in my home directory, and it started squishing every freaking thing.  not right.
also, there was somehow data loss, even though this is supposed to zip first before removal.  how did that happen?

3 weeks agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 18:54:11 +0000 (14:54 -0400)]
more progress

3 weeks agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:15:40 +0000 (06:15 -0400)]
more progress

3 weeks agomore progress on filename helper in python
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:46:20 +0000 (11:46 -0400)]
more progress on filename helper in python

and string slicing, wheee!

3 weeks agocleaned up debug wording a bit
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:21:06 +0000 (09:21 -0400)]
cleaned up debug wording a bit

3 weeks agomore good converting
Fred Hamster [Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:05:22 +0000 (22:05 -0400)]
more good converting

4 weeks agoimplemented same file method in python
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:08:16 +0000 (17:08 -0400)]
implemented same file method in python

4 weeks agofixed host list for gruntose domain
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:51:14 +0000 (22:51 -0400)]
fixed host list for gruntose domain

4 weeks agonew pattern for vim edits
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:44:20 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
new pattern for vim edits

this one fixes the old school bash line that looks like this:
  #!/bin/bash
to look like the more modern version:
  #!/usr/bin/env bash

also renamed the directory to be vim for uhh modernity.

4 weeks agosaving minor updates
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:46:30 +0000 (17:46 -0400)]
saving minor updates

4 weeks agomore tasty work in python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:44:02 +0000 (17:44 -0400)]
more tasty work in python

4 weeks agocontinuing work on filename helper in python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:20:25 +0000 (17:20 -0400)]
continuing work on filename helper in python

4 weeks agosplunge!
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:37:06 +0000 (13:37 -0400)]
splunge!

4 weeks agoconverted generate aliases to python
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:35:22 +0000 (13:35 -0400)]
converted generate aliases to python

now just need to work on the library files it uses.  filename helper is the first level down, but there may be others...

4 weeks agomore progress
Fred Hamster [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:52:14 +0000 (11:52 -0400)]
more progress

4 weeks agomade archive for older codes
Chris Koeritz [Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:24:26 +0000 (10:24 -0400)]
made archive for older codes

plus some good progress on the conversion of the alias generator.

4 weeks agogeneralized the syncthing conflict locator
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:41:37 +0000 (10:41 -0400)]
generalized the syncthing conflict locator

4 weeks agocloser to functional
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:24:09 +0000 (10:24 -0400)]
closer to functional

4 weeks agomore plowing through the python
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:02:22 +0000 (09:02 -0400)]
more plowing through the python

4 weeks agomore work on this
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:59:41 +0000 (00:59 -0400)]
more work on this

nowhere close to ready, but seeing what we need.

4 weeks agoitty bits of progress on new python code
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:35:36 +0000 (20:35 -0400)]
itty bits of progress on new python code

starting with the generator for aliases, found rapidly that we're plowing into our re-use libraries for perl, and needing to convert those to python also.  so be it, and an excellent example to work on.

4 weeks agostarting new python initiative in generate aliases
Fred Hamster [Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:05:18 +0000 (20:05 -0400)]
starting new python initiative in generate aliases

an old perl script and pretty simple, so this should work well as a first place to start supplanting our older (and unfortunately a little unreadable) perl code with python code instead.

5 weeks agoslight improvements and generality increases
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:05:50 +0000 (21:05 -0400)]
slight improvements and generality increases

enabled checkin on files in cool permissionator, rather than just directories,
although the intended purpose of fixing the crontabs file for my user in one weird scenario (where my original uid had changed,
and then a new user was added with the old uid, meaning my crontab was inaccessible to me) did not work, since the permissions
on the crontabs directory keeps normal users from seeing things in there, including their own crontab file.

5 weeks agosimple example template for data import to gnucash
Fred Hamster [Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:12:01 +0000 (08:12 -0400)]
simple example template for data import to gnucash

5 weeks agoautomation script for getting simple df
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:51:02 +0000 (12:51 -0400)]
automation script for getting simple df

6 weeks agoadded apt-file as requirement for prep
Fred Hamster [Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:31:51 +0000 (12:31 -0400)]
added apt-file as requirement for prep

also added a readme with some useful automation commands.

6 weeks agofind syncthing conflict files
Fred Hamster [Mon, 7 Apr 2025 16:24:22 +0000 (12:24 -0400)]
find syncthing conflict files

simple script checks our storage hierarchy for syncthing conflict files

6 weeks agobetter name for the cleaner of redundant files
Fred Hamster [Mon, 7 Apr 2025 15:24:45 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
better name for the cleaner of redundant files

6 weeks agogalculator now considered a requirement
Fred Hamster [Mon, 7 Apr 2025 13:58:10 +0000 (09:58 -0400)]
galculator now considered a requirement

6 weeks agoupdated hosts in gruntose list
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:53:58 +0000 (23:53 -0400)]
updated hosts in gruntose list

6 weeks agoadded mariadb client tools to prep
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 6 Apr 2025 18:48:12 +0000 (14:48 -0400)]
added mariadb client tools to prep

6 weeks agocleans directories with different hierarchies
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 6 Apr 2025 18:08:07 +0000 (14:08 -0400)]
cleans directories with different hierarchies

this new tool compare_whacker is super handy.
i have a newer scheme for managing my digital pictures and an older scheme.
the two schemes are incompatible (old one used the camera name as the main index
and the new scheme just uses the data from the picture metadata).
the compare whacker was written so i could clean up a redundant copy of my pictures
that were stored in the old scheme.  i needed to find all the picture names that were
the same across the two.
NOTE: some pictures re-use the filenames on the pictures, and this creates havoc with
this script.  use more precise hierarchies if you have lots of identical file names!

6 weeks agoupdated help instructions
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 6 Apr 2025 13:12:10 +0000 (09:12 -0400)]
updated help instructions

needs to explicitly be passed the hostname:path style parameter now.

6 weeks agotasty updates for comparator
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 6 Apr 2025 12:52:21 +0000 (08:52 -0400)]
tasty updates for comparator

now very much a reusable tool for others, since the hard-coded names for the comparator have
been cleaned up.  now these scripts just use the MAJOR_ARCHIVE_SOURCES and the command line
parameters to ferret out the proper locations to synch.
successfully used against both localhost, a remote host, and a local disk archive now.

6 weeks agotraced an issue with mirror mode
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 3 Apr 2025 15:05:07 +0000 (11:05 -0400)]
traced an issue with mirror mode

we will only mirror, aka delete, when the hierarchy on the target is one that already exists on the source.
this is a consequence of the necessary scooping of the "*" under a hierarchy to be copied to the target,
rather than trying to copy at the same height for the directory trees (which will lead to a basement folder being
created under the remote target basement, i.e. /media/fred/archivedrive/basement/basement, rather than
copying direct contents.  so for now, we are limited by our use of rsync for this, unless there's a mode to
do a direct directory copy rather than its current behavior.

6 weeks agoadding safeguards to not overwrite same name files
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 2 Apr 2025 22:57:32 +0000 (18:57 -0400)]
adding safeguards to not overwrite same name files

there was a possibility that a file like ~blah.xlsx could overwrite blah.xlsx, which is a huge issue.  don't want to scrap any active files like that, so now we are checking at different stages in the rename process to ensure there are at least no overwrites.

6 weeks agoignoring tilde files now
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 2 Apr 2025 13:37:01 +0000 (09:37 -0400)]
ignoring tilde files now

we don't want to mess with these at all.

7 weeks agoadded epub to spacemall fixins list
Fred Hamster [Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:50:52 +0000 (10:50 -0400)]
added epub to spacemall fixins list

7 weeks agonew fortune
Fred Hamster [Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:01:31 +0000 (11:01 -0400)]
new fortune

8 weeks agoMerge branch 'release-2.140.189' into dev
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:13:26 +0000 (10:13 -0400)]
Merge branch 'release-2.140.189' into dev

8 weeks agonew branch for upcoming release 2.140.189 release-2.140.189
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:02:56 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
new branch for upcoming release 2.140.189

8 weeks agoprep adds git+gitk and better help in quick git
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:01:00 +0000 (10:01 -0400)]
prep adds git+gitk and better help in quick git

8 weeks agoupdated help info to clear up required parameters
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:17:49 +0000 (09:17 -0400)]
updated help info to clear up required parameters

2 months agoadded social items
Fred Hamster [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:08:44 +0000 (13:08 -0400)]
added social items

2 months agoadded etherwake as os package
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:09:00 +0000 (08:09 -0400)]
added etherwake as os package

2 months agoadded growisofs as basic package for prep
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:55:50 +0000 (17:55 -0400)]
added growisofs as basic package for prep

2 months agoupdated our host list
Fred Hamster [Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:13:54 +0000 (10:13 -0400)]
updated our host list

2 months agocleanups in sound scripts
Fred Hamster [Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:17:25 +0000 (12:17 -0400)]
cleanups in sound scripts

2 months agosome clean up on random play scripts
Fred Hamster [Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:58:55 +0000 (17:58 -0400)]
some clean up on random play scripts

still doesn't seem to be making sound though...

2 months agoswitching up to ssl for osgrid sql backup
Chris Koeritz [Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:11:39 +0000 (17:11 +0000)]
switching up to ssl for osgrid sql backup

apparently needed now, or at least we hope this solves our empty backup
file problems.

2 months agorevised to add --ssl flag
Chris Koeritz [Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:26:12 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
revised to add --ssl flag

saw my backups starting to be empty, and found that this needs a --ssl
flag to be happy, except that before i made the change, the backups had
started working again.  not sure wtf, except maybe i installed a missing
bit last time i was fuggling around with this stuff?

2 months agoimprovements for whackem and minimizer
Chris Koeritz [Sun, 9 Mar 2025 20:11:00 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
improvements for whackem and minimizer

now whackem can be invoked without forcing a sleep first, and
the minimizer uses whackem instead of throwing stuff to safedel
via 'rm'.

2 months agofixed issues with seek_writable
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 7 Mar 2025 21:56:10 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
fixed issues with seek_writable

was not handling the top of the filesystem properly.  now it is.

2 months agofixed sanitized username again...
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 7 Mar 2025 21:30:27 +0000 (21:30 +0000)]
fixed sanitized username again...

...so it doesn't think it can reset USER variable if it's broken.
also fixed safedel to not loudly complain if its attempted chmod
doesn't work right, which will always happen when, for example, the
www-data user is using feisty meow code, but it cannot chmod the linked
customize directory since that's linked to the real feisty meow
code which www-data has no perms on.

2 months agobandaids for sanitize_username
Chris Koeritz [Fri, 7 Mar 2025 20:50:08 +0000 (20:50 +0000)]
bandaids for sanitize_username

making sure this should never produce an empty string as the sanitized
username, something we wanted to be sure about after seeing some really
odd log file names for our www-data user.

2 months agobetter get_nets
Fred Hamster [Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:38:32 +0000 (12:38 -0500)]
better get_nets

now doesn't shave off the NIC name, due to using the short form of ifconfig.

2 months agoadded simple command to get network interfaces
Chris Koeritz [Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:40:49 +0000 (10:40 -0500)]
added simple command to get network interfaces

3 months agotrying to get kona java stuff working again
Fred Hamster [Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:07:35 +0000 (01:07 -0500)]
trying to get kona java stuff working again

3 months agonew fortune
Fred Hamster [Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:29:40 +0000 (14:29 -0500)]
new fortune

3 months agofixed the chowning of /z bug
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:52:38 +0000 (06:52 -0500)]
fixed the chowning of /z bug

3 months agoremoved reference to CLOUD_BASE in variables
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:13:26 +0000 (11:13 -0500)]
removed reference to CLOUD_BASE in variables

need to figure out a nicer way of using CLOUD_BASE
in scripts like move spams, so there can be a generalized
thing that anyone could use, instead of it depending on my specific cloud
structure.

3 months agomoved very custom agenda scripts into fred area
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:56:10 +0000 (08:56 -0500)]
moved very custom agenda scripts into fred area

3 months agoadded report at end of where the history file is
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:31:36 +0000 (18:31 -0500)]
added report at end of where the history file is

3 months agoadded pushd to fix checkin deep in tree
Fred Hamster [Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:37:32 +0000 (09:37 -0500)]
added pushd to fix checkin deep in tree

3 months agoadded strider for puffing out gruntose host repos
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:23:40 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
added strider for puffing out gruntose host repos

3 months agoadded bind9-dnsutils as OS package
Chris Koeritz [Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:26:43 +0000 (03:26 -0500)]
added bind9-dnsutils as OS package

3 months agoadded mp4 as handled extension in spacemall
Fred Hamster [Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:32:46 +0000 (09:32 -0500)]
added mp4 as handled extension in spacemall

4 months agocleaned up some debug noise and old codes
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:14:20 +0000 (17:14 -0500)]
cleaned up some debug noise and old codes

4 months agodropped unnecessary push dir
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:06:42 +0000 (17:06 -0500)]
dropped unnecessary push dir

4 months agofiddling with current dir
Fred T. Hamster [Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:45:41 +0000 (16:45 -0500)]
fiddling with current dir

4 months agostill seeking weird issue for update
Fred Hamster [Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:46:21 +0000 (10:46 -0500)]
still seeking weird issue for update

4 months agoMerge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev
Fred Hamster [Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:11:35 +0000 (09:11 -0500)]
Merge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev

4 months agoupdated a couple checks to accept empty dirs
Fred Hamster [Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:11:13 +0000 (09:11 -0500)]
updated a couple checks to accept empty dirs

4 months agoremoved an unneeded case and added function check
Fred T. Hamster [Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:08:46 +0000 (09:08 -0500)]
removed an unneeded case and added function check

4 months agoMerge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev
Fred Hamster [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:58:16 +0000 (16:58 -0500)]
Merge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev

4 months agoupdated name for locater method
Fred Hamster [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:57:28 +0000 (16:57 -0500)]
updated name for locater method

4 months agoupdated name for locater method
root [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:56:23 +0000 (16:56 -0500)]
updated name for locater method

4 months agolooking at missing dir issue
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:13:56 +0000 (16:13 -0500)]
looking at missing dir issue

4 months agoworking on annoying skip of pulls
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:18:58 +0000 (10:18 -0500)]
working on annoying skip of pulls

4 months agonice mode to find how a script is defined
Fred T. Hamster [Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:04:59 +0000 (10:04 -0500)]
nice mode to find how a script is defined

4 months agoturned off debugging
Fred Hamster [Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:10:09 +0000 (16:10 -0500)]
turned off debugging

4 months agoadded check for .git above current dir
Fred Hamster [Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:01:42 +0000 (11:01 -0500)]
added check for .git above current dir

4 months agofixed path print out at top of dump
Fred Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 15:28:30 +0000 (10:28 -0500)]
fixed path print out at top of dump

4 months agostill working towards correct locations
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 06:05:06 +0000 (01:05 -0500)]
still working towards correct locations

need to update how we do the find, since sometimes we need to find above and not just below.

4 months agochanged to mainstream spelling for writable
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:01:26 +0000 (00:01 -0500)]
changed to mainstream spelling for writable

4 months agocleaning approach some more for seeking .git dir
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:59:16 +0000 (23:59 -0500)]
cleaning approach some more for seeking .git dir

4 months agoMerge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:31:09 +0000 (23:31 -0500)]
Merge branch 'dev' of feistymeow.org:feisty_meow into dev

4 months agoupdated to add slocums drive
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:29:08 +0000 (23:29 -0500)]
updated to add slocums drive

4 months agoadded new drive to list for updates
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:28:15 +0000 (23:28 -0500)]
added new drive to list for updates

4 months agoupdated notes
Fred Hamster [Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:11:11 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
updated notes

4 months agoadded seek_writeable method that recurses up
Fred Hamster [Wed, 8 Jan 2025 01:58:21 +0000 (20:58 -0500)]
added seek_writeable method that recurses up

this is useful for the git checkins, and the method seems to be working basically, but our git scripts are not quite integrated yet.

4 months agosuring with the rearranging
Fred Hamster [Mon, 6 Jan 2025 18:41:03 +0000 (13:41 -0500)]
suring with the rearranging

4 months agodropping extra file removals
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 4 Jan 2025 06:38:59 +0000 (01:38 -0500)]
dropping extra file removals

4 months agomoving towards uniform temp file handling
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 4 Jan 2025 06:35:50 +0000 (01:35 -0500)]
moving towards uniform temp file handling

4 months agodropped weird escapes on rm
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 4 Jan 2025 05:33:14 +0000 (00:33 -0500)]
dropped weird escapes on rm

the \rm construct was displeasing to our eyes and finally had to be removed.
all delete operations are now going through safedel, as far as i know.

4 months agoadded exec flag
Fred Hamster [Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:01:33 +0000 (11:01 -0500)]
added exec flag

4 months agoshows complaint if cannot delete anything (again)
Fred Hamster [Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:36:42 +0000 (19:36 -0500)]
shows complaint if cannot delete anything (again)

4 months agocleaning up some non-generalized scripts
Fred Hamster [Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:41:40 +0000 (16:41 -0500)]
cleaning up some non-generalized scripts

4 months agonew fortune
Fred Hamster [Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:51:37 +0000 (13:51 -0500)]
new fortune

4 months agoadded another drive for updating
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:11:00 +0000 (10:11 -0500)]
added another drive for updating