Obsolete Your Idols

Since I’m finally getting down to grinding through my email I thought “wouldn’t it be cool to see visible evidence of my progress?” Then after I’d procrastinated for quite a while on the munin plugin repository looking at many plugins which were almost but not quite what I wanted, I decided to cement my stalling by writing my own. I even took the time to make it a wildcard plugin, though it is highly tailored to my email setup. (In short, it uses Maildir structure and my mailboxes tend to have a goofy set of period-delimited names where only the suffix is material.)

#!/bin/bash



# mailbox_ by Shannon Prickett <binder@manjusri.org>



MAILUSER=${0##*mailbox_}



case $1 in

    config)

        cat << 'EOT'

graph_title Emails By Folder

graph_vlabel Emails

graph_category mail

graph_args --base 1000 -l 0

graph_scale no

graph_info The count of emails in the current and new email folders.

EOT

        ;;

esac



TARGET="/home/${MAILUSER}/Maildir"

for folder in `ls -a ${TARGET}`

do

    if [ -d ${TARGET}/$folder/cur ]; then

        SHORTNAME=$(echo ${folder} | cut -d. -f 3 -)

        if [ -z ${SHORTNAME} ]; then

            SHORTNAME=INBOX

        fi

        case $1 in

            config)

                echo "${SHORTNAME}.label ${SHORTNAME}"

                ;;

            *) 

                CURCOUNT=$(ls ${TARGET}/$folder/cur | wc -l)

                NEWCOUNT=$(ls ${TARGET}/$folder/new | wc -l)

                COUNT=$((${CURCOUNT}+${NEWCOUNT}))

                echo "${SHORTNAME}.value ${COUNT}"

                ;;

        esac

    fi

done

UPDATED: now it sums read and unread and has a typo fixed.

As you may know, I’m a big fan of what I’d consider the JWZ PSA style of data backup for my home systems (none of them are really pretentious enough to even be considered servers). For a while I’ve been continuing to expand on the list of –exclude options I’d been passing to rsync. But no more! At long last my tolerance for rambling rsync options was exhausted.

So of course I turned it into a script. This script.

#!/bin/bash



EXCLUDES=`mktemp --tmpdir=/tmp rsyncex.XXXXXX`

RSYNCFLAGS="-q"



while getopts "v" Option

do

    case $Option in

    v   )   RSYNCFLAGS='-v';;

    *   )   echo "Only know -v for verbose" ;;

    esac

done

        

(

cat <<'EOL'

*.lock

/proc/*

/sys/*

*/tiger/work/*

*/nagios3/spool/*

tmp/*

/tmp/*

/opt/splunk/var/*

/var/www/munin/*

EOL

) > ${EXCLUDES}



# as an idle job if you can

/usr/bin/ionice -c 3 -t \

    /usr/bin/rsync -xa ${RSYNCFLAGS} --links \

        --exclude-from=${EXCLUDES}  --delete / /mnt/backup



rm ${EXCLUDES}

The points at which you would want to modify it for your own use should be obvious, if not the point of why you would want to use it at all.