Georgs Blog – Page 4

Jenkins and case sensitive environment variables

Some tools demand environment variables to be present in a certain case. E.g. some libraries read out the proxy configuration in the environment variable HTTP_PROXY (all uppercase), while some refer to the lower case variant http_proxy. An example of the later is libcurl. So in any case you want to set both variants.

Unfortunately Jenkins has some problems passing all variants from the build host environment and is mixing up things. It doesn’t seem that the problem is fixed anytime soon.

Homeassistant with Traefik and SSH

So the idea is to have a home router listen on port 443 for HTTPS and SSH connection simultanously, route HTTPS traffic to a local homeassistant instance and SSH traffic to a local SSH server:

Import paypal CSV to homebank

paypal2homebank.py converts the CSV export of paypal to the CSV import format of homebank.

Example:

$ paypal2homebank.py ~/bin/Download.CSV ~/out.csv
Processing line 1
Processing line 2
Skipping type Memo in line 3

Import Volksbank CSV to homebank

fiducia2homebank.py converts the CSV export of fiducia based banking websites (e.g. Volksbank ) to the CSV import format of homebank.

Example:

$ fiducia2homebank.py Umsaetze_DExxxxxxxxxxxxxx_2020.01.01.csv ~/out.csv
Found header in line 9
Data section ends in line 42

Howto export an encrypted borgbackup archive

Borgbackup is a deduplicating backup program with encryption and compresssion. It uses a sophisticated storage format to fullfill those features.

Each backup run is stored in a so called archive. Sometimes you may want to keep a specific archive in long term storage – indepenend of any specific software specific format – let say as regular tar file.