kdeldycke / scripts

:snake: Utility scripts, patches and hacks.

My name is Kevin Deldycke, I'm a high-tech Engineering Manager.

Short Bio

I've held various positions in several industries and sectors as VP, Product Manager, Founding Engineer and Consultant.

After 15+ years of relevant engineering work, and 3+ years of hands-on management experience, I now build teams from scratch with self-sustaining culture, and my intent is to keep doing so.

Enabling engineers, leading managers, and make them feel productive is the most impactful thing I can bring to the table. So I'm always on the lookout for a high-tech management position, at a fast growing start-up with ambitious vision.

My most relevant experience was in growing a team from 0 to 12 at a world-class cloud computing provider. We built up the whole IAM ecosystem, as well as the Billing and Payment stack.

Achievements

• 💰 Designed, implemented and operated Scaleway's billing pipeline, generating multi-million dollars of revenue (and growing!). The whole thing. All by myself.

• 🚀 Then I built a team of 12 people to enhance and expand on the full Billing, Payment and IAM domain of the company. In doing so, I was given the fancy title of Product Manager, then VP.

• 🤝 Established lasting trust and loyalty. No one from my team resigned under my authority, in a company with a very high employee turnover rate.

• 🥇 World trending GitHub developer, and top-1% open-source developer.

• 🌟 21,000+ GitHub stars. The most popular repository being the Falsehoods Programmers Believe in. It is regularly featured on popular media.

• 💵 Wrote the best open-source payroll software in the world.

• 🌐 Created and managed the African subsidiary of my first employer.

• 🛰 Authored code that's running on Mars.

• 🤡 Wasted 6 years solving an XKCD joke.

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scripts's Issues

Configuration file

Let have a configuration file and place there all stuff to backup. See: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2007/03/website-backup-script-mysql-dumps-and-ssh-supported/comment-page-1/#comment-3091

Backup script halts at rsyncing

As reported by Anže Jarni:

Sorry to bother you on your email regarding a probably obsolete project of yours, but I could not refuse to ask you this because I've spent a few days trying to fix this with no result...

It is about your system-backup.py script which does rsync and rdiff-backup over SSH. It has been working fine on a number of machines, but on the new hosting server, it just halts at rsyncing and stays there forever. It creates the directories, but fails to transfer any files. When I run the actual commands directly from bash, it completes normally without any stalling so I guess it's a python process management thing.

I would be glad if you could give me a few pointers or ideas from your experience, what the problem might be.

Thank you for your effort!

TypeError when applying regexp on Subject

See the detailed error here: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/08/maildir-deduplication-script-python/comment-page-1/#comment-8768

Merge backup scripts

I currently have 2 backup scripts: system-backup.py and website-backup.py. It's better to merge them to remove unnecessary code duplication.

Add support for non-standard SSH port

The issue is well explained there: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2007/03/website-backup-script-mysql-dumps-and-ssh-supported/comment-page-1/#comment-3466

--remove option raise a Fatal Python error

This issue is described on my blog by Andreas at: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2010/08/maildir-deduplication-script-python/comment-page-1/#comment-8770

OSError: [Errno 10] No child processes

Update code to fix the error referenced there: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2007/08/system-backup-script-no-more-endless-lock/comment-page-1/#comment-3460

Timestamp parsing error

Here is an error reported by mail by a user:

root@cub:/etc/getmail# /usr/bin/deldupmail.py -d /var/vmail/www.example.com/admin/Maildir/
Processing 64300 mails in /var/vmail/www.example.com/admin/Maildir
...........................................................................
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 468, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 422, in main
    duplicates_run(opts, maildir_paths)
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 443, in duplicates_run
    mail_count += collate_folder_by_hash(mails_by_hash, maildir, opts.message_id)
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 263, in collate_folder_by_hash
    mail_hash, header_text = compute_hash_key(message, use_message_id)
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 249, in compute_hash_key
    canonical_headers_text = get_canonical_headers(message)
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 187, in get_canonical_headers
    canonical_value = get_canonical_header_value(header, value)
  File "/usr/bin/deldupmail.py", line 223, in get_canonical_header_value
    utc_timestamp = email.utils.mktime_tz(email.utils.parsedate_tz(value))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/email/_parseaddr.py", line 154, in mktime_tz
    if data[9] is None:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
root@cub:/etc/getmail#

Re-add folder recursion in maildir-deduplicate.py

Recursivity was removed by aspiers in commit 35ce01e. We have to reintroduce it.

See #2 (comment) for the context.