The arr apps keep SQLite databases; a consistent copy of a live one is sqlite3's .backup. Declared
once, by the holder that runs the copies, rather than by each app.
The first run on the control node called postgres's dumps missing: the holder looked as the
runtime's account, which cannot see inside a store's 0700 data directory. Every other act already
runs as root; the existence checks do too now.
Go is the default for module code. One binary, fail2ban-tools, serving the node-intrusion-prevention
seat's four verbs and fail2ban_settings over the SDK, with the same parsing and the same tests; read
back against the control node's live daemon.
Go is the default for new module code; the holder is one binary like the licence manager, serving
the seat's verbs over the SDK and running the nights beside them. Same behaviour and tests.
A live restart of the system bus during an upgrade hung every login on a
workstation until a reboot. The module owns the bus's packages, declares
the bus running with no restart or reload trigger, publishes only curated
events (health, services, denials; never traffic) and serves tools to look
at both buses.
The workstations' XDG conventions had no owner: xdg-user-dirs-update rewrote
the folders file at every login, both machines' default-application lists
named an editor neither has, and the laptop kept two dead links of the
retired predecessor. The module adopts the operator's folders (three as
settings, as the machines differ), disables the update so it cannot undo the
mesh's file, and writes the machine's own mimeapps list, the last one read,
so the person's choices in their own list always win. Autostart is listed,
not owned: each entry is its application's module's.
ADR 0214 / to-be 43. restic keeps one repository per machine and takes a nightly snapshot per
module — 14 daily, 8 weekly, 6 monthly — and restores beside the live data, never over it. postgres,
mssql and mongodb contribute a consistent dump; minio, influxdb, the vault, mailu, gitea and
nextcloud the directories that hold their data.
Both are official packages already on both workstations, started once by dex from an XDG
autostart entry (the client's own, the package's). The modules declare the package, add no
second start, own none of the apps' files, and give the mesh status, log, restart and check.
rofi, clipmenu, feh, i3status-rust and the laptop's model module wrote files into i3's config.d,
naming no dependency on the window manager. They now contribute their lines; i3 places them under a
line naming each module, and config.d is the operator's alone. The catalogue-wide test composes the
contributions as the controller does and checks the whole with i3 -C.
A licence store rebuilt after issue 241 counted generations from one again,
and nodes that apply only a higher number discarded the login move and the
rotations unseen. Nodes now apply any binding other than the one applied;
the manager moves its sequence past every generation a node reports. hq
issue 243.
mssql disables the login, mongodb takes the user's roles, minio revokes the key and keeps the bucket,
mailu disables the mailbox, gitea prohibits the login instead of purging the user and their
repositories, umami keeps the website. Each provider's create already enables what this locks.
On one server the watcher reported a lock that logind did not list. A descriptor that is not an
inhibitor reference is never wrapped (0 would be the bundle's stdin, its channel to the runtime), and
every poll checks the lock is still held, taking it again and saying why when it is not.
managed-settings.json carried only the mesh's fixed keys, so permissions and
auto-mode rules could only be set by hand per machine, outside the mesh.
A managed_settings setting is laid under the mesh's keys, which still win.
The host reads a one-shot that is not running as having run, so a before-sleep or after-wake unit
declared stopped failed on its first apply; drop-ins on the sleep targets pull them in instead.
Code around sleep was written into the service manager's sleep units by the module that needed it,
and the mesh could not tell a sleeping machine from a lost one. power runs every module's code for
the six moments, each piece bounded, owns logind's power handling from its settings, and says
booted, sleeping, woke, shutting-down and the power source on the bus, sleeping under logind's
delay lock before the machine sleeps.
The first version swapped the colour build for the distribution's plain i3lock and locked to black;
adopting means keeping what the operator had. Plain i3lock remains the fallback, with a blurred
screenshot of its own.
A Go bundle the runtime launches beside the nats module's server. It reads
the server's monitoring API and the composed user list — never a password
hash — and changes nothing. Reached directly when the endpoint is published,
through the container otherwise: its configuration binds monitoring to the
container's own loopback, so the published port answers nothing today.
The laptop's model module owned triggerhappy's trigger file and service, although the daemon is a
general piece others have keys for. triggerhappy now owns the daemon, reads only the mesh's file,
runs every trigger as the account, and the model module contributes its vendor keys.
Two definitions held one module name. Rebuilt to this catalogue's main on 2026-10-04, the mesh took
this stub — a server and an admin client — over the app's definition in photos.git, and five of its
six sites lost their routes. The app's repository is the source, as de-spiegel's and link2pay's are.
ADR 0183: retired once the licence manager runs. claude-licence-manager has
held the anthropic-licence-manager seat since 2026-10-04; neither old module
was assigned anywhere.
jschoubben
mesh-admin
jochen