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fleetd #360 follow-up: the install block must say loginctl enable-linger
PR #370 shipped both units but its install block stopped at
`systemctl --user enable --now`. Without lingering a user manager starts at
your first login and stops at your last logout, so the units do not come back
after a reboot -- which is the whole reason this ticket moved fleet01 off the
setsid scripts.

It is easy to miss because leaving it out looks like success: `systemctl --user
enable` reports "enabled" and both units run while you stay logged in. The
issue named this and the PR did not carry it over.

fleet01 itself is fine -- measured `Linger=yes`, both units `enabled`. This is
about the next host that follows these instructions.

Comment only; SystemdUnitSafetyTest still 8 green (a commented line is not an
active directive).
2026-09-06 20:08:05 +07:00

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# CB-504 — systemd unit for fleetd (Linux).
#
# fleetd #360: the previous version of this file started clean and broke the daemon in three ways
# that nothing logs (see the DO NOT block and the ExecStart/PrivateTmp comments below for what and
# why). The unit below, plus its companion deploy/herdr.service, is the version that has actually
# run on fleet01 without those failures. Do not "improve" it back toward the old shape without
# re-reading why each line is the way it is.
#
# Install (user service — fleetd drives the user's herdr, not a system daemon):
# mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
# cp deploy/fleetd.service deploy/herdr.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
# # edit WorkingDirectory / ExecStart below for your host's paths and java location
# systemctl --user daemon-reload
# systemctl --user enable --now herdr fleetd
# loginctl enable-linger $USER # REQUIRED -- see below
# journalctl --user -u fleetd -f
#
# `loginctl enable-linger` is not optional and is easy to miss, because leaving it out looks like
# success: `systemctl --user enable` reports "enabled" and both units run for as long as you stay
# logged in. A user manager without lingering starts at your first login and stops at your last
# logout, so the fleet simply does not come back after a reboot -- which is the whole reason to
# use systemd here rather than the setsid scripts these units replaced. Check it with
# `loginctl show-user $USER -p Linger`; the answer must be `Linger=yes`.
#
# Secrets (AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN, WORKER_GITEA_TOKEN, LAVINMQ_URI, COORD_AMQP_URI, ...) are not set
# here and need no systemd drop-in: ExecStart runs a login shell, so they come from wherever your
# login shell already sources them (this host: ~/.fleet/secrets.sh via ~/.zprofile). If a token is
# missing there, fleetd still starts — the daemon reports every secret a configured profile
# references, by name, never by value:
# journalctl --user -u fleetd | grep 'startup secret'
# A resolved one logs "startup secret NAME: set (profile 'x' tokenEnv)"; a missing one logs
# "startup secret NAME: MISSING" at WARN and the daemon starts anyway — the first visible symptom
# is a member that cannot open a pull request, hours later and in a different component.
[Unit]
Description=fleetd — fleet message server
Documentation=https://git.ltms.dev/fleet/fleetd/wiki
# Ordering only. fleetd retries the herdr socket rather than exiting, which is what actually makes
# a late socket survivable. Do NOT add Requires=: a herdr restart must not take fleetd down too.
After=herdr.service
Wants=herdr.service
[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=%h/LTMS/fleetd/fleetd
# A LOGIN shell, not java directly. Every secret this daemon needs (AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN,
# WORKER_GITEA_TOKEN, LAVINMQ_URI, COORD_AMQP_URI) lives in ~/.fleet/secrets.sh, which only
# ~/.zprofile sources. systemd runs no login shell. Started any other way the daemon boots fine
# and looks healthy, and the failure appears hours later as a member that cannot open a pull
# request. exec keeps it one process, so systemd tracks the right PID.
# This also avoids a SECOND copy of the secrets in a systemd drop-in: one source of truth.
ExecStart=/bin/zsh -lc "exec java -jar target/fleetd.jar fleetd.yaml"
# PrivateTmp MUST stay false -- see herdr.service. fleetd creates the member ZDOTDIR scrub dir and
# the opencode config dir under java.io.tmpdir, and the member pane (a herdr child, a different
# unit) has to read them. A private /tmp turns the credential scrub into a silent no-op.
PrivateTmp=false
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10s
# A bad config makes fleetd fail fast by design. Give up rather than restart-loop forever.
StartLimitBurst=5
StartLimitIntervalSec=120
# DO NOT add ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome=, ProtectKernelTunables= or ProtectControlGroups=.
# Measured on fleet01 2026-09-05: each of those gives the unit its own mount namespace, and
# fleetd resolves a caller role by running lsof to find the loopback peer PID
# (mcp/LsofPeerPidLookup). Inside such a namespace lsof returns nothing, every caller falls back
# to ANONYMOUS, and the primary is refused every orchestration call with
# "unauthenticated: anonymous may not SPAWN".
# The daemon still starts, healthz still returns ok and the secrets still resolve - the only
# symptom is that the fleet cannot be driven at all. Verified by bisecting the directives:
# no sandbox 3 lsof lines | ProtectSystem=strict 0 | ProtectHome=read-only 0
# ProtectKernelTunables 0 | ProtectControlGroups 0 | RestrictSUIDSGID 3 | NoNewPrivileges 3
# The two below add no mount namespace and are safe.
NoNewPrivileges=true
RestrictSUIDSGID=true
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal
SyslogIdentifier=fleetd
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target