Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 8 Feb 2026 05:06:07 +0000 (00:06 -0500)]
ini config test is working again
the test exposed an insufficient size when performing double_plus operations, since we shifted the number into an int as part of truncation operation. changed this to a long long instead, which seems to have sufficient size for our purposes. previous result was that it was garbling the number and turning it negative as it handily overflowed 32 bits.
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:17:13 +0000 (10:17 -0500)]
test dirtree fcopy after one upgrade run
found a fix for __argv and __argc to add in upgrade script. want to get this version in before running it again to see if any severe tire damage occurs.
Fred T. Hamster [Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:09:34 +0000 (10:09 -0500)]
working towards easier porting
updated the porting script, and now it mentions the actual product it's porting to (feisty meow).
got break signal test app compiling and working now too.
Fred T. Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 12:30:01 +0000 (07:30 -0500)]
revised name for 'apps' to be 'source'
makes a lot more sense, since we store source there and not built apps.
plus the 's' letter is no longer colliding with anything else in my standard names? wheeee....
Fred Hamster [Thu, 5 Feb 2026 02:56:17 +0000 (21:56 -0500)]
closing in on getting cmd line test working
the upgrade hoople to yeti script still does the mostly right stuff, despite neither of those being the current product name.
just a few errors left, i hope...
Chris Koeritz [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 16:25:20 +0000 (11:25 -0500)]
added a guard to catch an unusual error
ran this recently and seemed to think things were installed, but then xsecurelock wasn't really there.
this at least catches this situation; still need to fix deeper cause of problem.
Fred T. Hamster [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 17:14:23 +0000 (12:14 -0500)]
new seek_package script for precise install checks
and removed yum case from list_package, which was redundant.
and fixed the screensaver setup script to use seek_package, so it's an exact check now. sweet.
Fred Hamster [Mon, 1 Dec 2025 15:39:02 +0000 (10:39 -0500)]
new fortune ish and reverted decision on saver
cannot have screensaver script trying to install stuff during our basic feisty meow startup. duhhh.
that needs to be managed separately, perhaps as an x window auto-start item.
also a new fortune or two, although one is actually a bad joke.
Fred T. Hamster [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:29:45 +0000 (18:29 -0500)]
made the xss startup not errorful
there are too many things that can seem to go wrong with the xss-lock startup,
but which leave it in a still functional state, so we made the error check after
running it allow continuation.
Fred Hamster [Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:25:10 +0000 (10:25 -0500)]
added support to start a screensaver for x windows
tries to be subtle by only hooking in if the xsecurelock software is installed, if x windows is running, and if there is no existing screensaver hooked.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?