Google limiting IMAPS connections

Well, it was bound to happen: Google rejecting IMAPS connections because I had too many simultaneous connections.  Too many accounts for the places I'm affiliated with.  In Apple mail, turn off "Use IDLE command if server supports it", and life should be better:

Restart backintime

There's a directory "~/.local/share/backintime" where backintime keeps its information.  Specifically, the worker.lock contains the PID of the process; "kill `cat ~/.local/share/backintime/worker.lock`" stop the currently-running process. The "worker.message" file contain the message displayed in the tray notifier or backintime-gnome, and the "takesnapshot_.log" contains lots of good debugging messages if needed.

OS X and tsocks

I wanted to play around with tsocks, but it had multiple issues with compiling and working under OS X.  I downloaded 1.8 beta 5 (from 2002!) from http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/  Here are the patches that worked for me, collected from a number of places hiding on the web.

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 Makefile.in
*** Makefile.in    2014/05/09 16:50:45    1.1
--- Makefile.in    2014/05/09 17:28:10
***************
*** 13,19 ****
  
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  MKINSTALLDIRS = ${SHELL} mkinstalldirs 
! SHCC = ${CC} -fPIC 
  INSPECT = inspectsocks
  SAVE = saveme
  LIB_NAME = libtsocks
--- 13,19 ----
  
  SHELL = /bin/sh
  MKINSTALLDIRS = ${SHELL} mkinstalldirs 
! SHCC = ${CC}
  INSPECT = inspectsocks
  SAVE = saveme
  LIB_NAME = libtsocks
***************
*** 23,29 ****
  SCRIPT = tsocks
  SHLIB_MAJOR = 1
  SHLIB_MINOR = 8
! SHLIB = ${LIB_NAME}.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR}.${SHLIB_MINOR}
  
  INSTALL = @INSTALL@
  INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
--- 23,30 ----
  SCRIPT = tsocks
  SHLIB_MAJOR = 1
  SHLIB_MINOR = 8
! SHLIB = ${LIB_NAME}.dynlib
! DYNLIB_FLAGS=-dynamiclib
  
  INSTALL = @INSTALL@
  INSTALL_DATA = @INSTALL_DATA@
***************
*** 47,57 ****
      ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -o ${INSPECT} ${INSPECT}.c ${COMMON}.o ${LIBS} 
  
  ${SAVE}: ${SAVE}.c
!     ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -static -o ${SAVE} ${SAVE}.c
  
  ${SHLIB}: ${OBJS} ${COMMON}.o ${PARSER}.o
!     ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -nostdlib -shared -o ${SHLIB} ${OBJS} ${COMMON}.o ${PARSER}.o ${DYNLIB_FLAGS} ${SPECIALLIBS} ${LIBS}
!     ln -sf ${SHLIB} ${LIB_NAME}.so
  
  %.so: %.c
      ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -c ${CC_SWITCHES} $< -o $@
--- 48,57 ----
      ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -o ${INSPECT} ${INSPECT}.c ${COMMON}.o ${LIBS} 
  
  ${SAVE}: ${SAVE}.c
!     ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -o ${SAVE} ${SAVE}.c
  
  ${SHLIB}: ${OBJS} ${COMMON}.o ${PARSER}.o
!     ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -o ${SHLIB} ${OBJS} ${COMMON}.o ${PARSER}.o ${DYNLIB_FLAGS} ${SPECIALLIBS} ${LIBS}
  
  %.so: %.c
      ${SHCC} ${CFLAGS} ${INCLUDES} -c ${CC_SWITCHES} $< -o $@
***************
*** 68,75 ****
  installlib:
      ${MKINSTALLDIRS} "${DESTDIR}${libdir}"
      ${INSTALL} ${SHLIB} ${DESTDIR}${libdir}
-     ln -sf ${SHLIB} ${DESTDIR}${libdir}/${LIB_NAME}.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR}
-     ln -sf ${LIB_NAME}.so.${SHLIB_MAJOR} ${DESTDIR}${libdir}/${LIB_NAME}.so
  
  installman:
      ${MKINSTALLDIRS} "${DESTDIR}${mandir}/man1"
--- 68,73 ----
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/configure,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 configure
*** configure    2014/05/09 16:42:31    1.1
--- configure    2014/05/09 16:42:45
***************
*** 4287,4293 ****
  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for correct poll prototype" >&5
  $as_echo_n "checking for correct poll prototype... " >&6; }
  PROTO=
! for testproto in 'struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned long nfds, int timeout'
  do
    if test "${PROTO}" = ""; then
      cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
--- 4287,4293 ----
  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for correct poll prototype" >&5
  $as_echo_n "checking for correct poll prototype... " >&6; }
  PROTO=
! for testproto in 'struct pollfd *ufds, nfds_t nfds, int timeout'
  do
    if test "${PROTO}" = ""; then
      cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/tsocks.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 tsocks.c
*** tsocks.c    2014/05/09 16:45:58    1.1
--- tsocks.c    2014/05/09 17:25:16
***************
*** 68,74 ****
  static char *conffile = NULL;
  
  /* Exported Function Prototypes */
- void _init(void);
  int connect(CONNECT_SIGNATURE);
  int select(SELECT_SIGNATURE);
  int poll(POLL_SIGNATURE);
--- 68,73 ----
***************
*** 100,105 ****
--- 99,105 ----
  static int read_socksv5_connect(struct connreq *conn);
  static int read_socksv5_auth(struct connreq *conn);
  
+ __attribute__((constructor))
  void _init(void) {
  #ifdef USE_OLD_DLSYM
      void *lib;
***************
*** 191,199 ****
      struct sockaddr_in *connaddr;
      struct sockaddr_in peer_address;
      struct sockaddr_in server_address;
!    int gotvalidserver = 0, rc, namelen = sizeof(peer_address);
      int sock_type = -1;
!     int sock_type_len = sizeof(sock_type);
      unsigned int res = -1;
      struct serverent *path;
     struct connreq *newconn;
--- 191,200 ----
      struct sockaddr_in *connaddr;
      struct sockaddr_in peer_address;
      struct sockaddr_in server_address;
!     int gotvalidserver = 0, rc;
!     socklen_t namelen = sizeof(peer_address);
      int sock_type = -1;
!     socklen_t sock_type_len = sizeof(sock_type);
      unsigned int res = -1;
      struct serverent *path;
     struct connreq *newconn;

I also rewrote the actual tsocks shell script, fixing it up for OS X in the process.

#!/bin/sh
# Wrapper script for use of the tsocks(8) transparent socksification library
#
# There are three forms of usage for this script:
#
# /usr/bin/tsocks program [program arguments...]
#
# This form sets the users DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable so that tsocks(8) 
# will be loaded to socksify the application then executes the specified 
# program (with the provided arguments). The following simple example might 
# be used to telnet to www.foo.org via a tsocks.conf(5) configured socks server:
#
# /usr/bin/tsocks telnet www.foo.org
#
# The second form allows for tsocks(8) to be switched on and off for a 
# session (that is, it adds and removes tsocks from the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment
# variable). This form must be _sourced_ into the user's existing session
# (and will only work with bourne shell users):
#
# . /usr/bin/tsocks on
# telnet www.foo.org 
# . /usr/bin/tsocks off
# 
# Or
# 
# source /usr/bin/tsocks on
# telnet www.foo.org
# source /usr/bin/tsocks off
#
# The third form creates a new shell with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES set and is achieved
# simply by running the script with no arguments 
# 
# /usr/bin/tsocks
#
# When finished the user can simply terminate the shell with 'exit'
# 
# This script is originally from the debian tsocks package by 
# Tamas Szerb <toma@rulez.org>

if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
   echo "$0: insufficient arguments"
   exit
fi

case "$1" in
    on)
        export DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE=1 
        export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES="/lib/libtsocks.dynlib"
        ;;
    off)
        unset DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE
        unset DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
        ;;
    show|sh)
        echo "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=\"$DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES\""
        ;;
    -h|-?)
        echo "$0: Please see tsocks(1) or read comment at top of $0"
        ;;
    *)
        export DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE=1 
        export DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES="/lib/libtsocks.dynlib"

        if [ $# = 0 ]
        then
            ${SHELL:-/bin/sh}
        fi

        if [ $# -gt 0 ]
        then
            exec "$@"
        fi
    ;;
esac

#EOF

Hope this helps someone.