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jasonwitty 43ce4f1aaa fix(installer): survive self-modification mid-run; sturdier unit detection
Root cause of the mixed-up second install on the A2000 host: when run
from the clone it manages, the script's own git checkout/merge REPLACES
scripts/install.sh while bash is still executing it. Bash reads scripts
lazily by byte offset, so it resumed parsing the NEW file at the OLD
offset and executed an arbitrary tail of it — observed as the fresh-
service path running on a host whose unit already existed: the port scan
saw the still-running old service on 3000 and silently wrote a new unit
on 3001, while enable --now on the already-active service changed
nothing until a manual daemon-reload.

Fix: the whole script now runs inside main(), invoked as
'main "$@"; exit $?' so bash parses everything up front and never
reads the file again after main returns (the exit lives in the same
parse unit — demonstrated necessary: with a bare 'main "$@"' ending,
bash still executed the swapped file's trailing content after main
returned).

Also: unit existence is now checked with 'systemctl cat' instead of
grepping the full list-unit-files output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 11:42:51 -07:00
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