fix(server): rotate the boot service log in place#24765

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Problem

The boot service appends stdout and stderr to boot-service.log indefinitely. On current main, a real systemd service running the server left a seeded 17 MiB log intact and grew it to 17,833,033 bytes without an archive.

Change

The service launcher checks the log at startup and every ten minutes. Above 10 MiB, it copies one best-effort archive and truncates the live file in place, preserving the service manager's open append descriptors. A failed archive copy still permits truncation. Maintenance runs through the launcher's existing transition queue.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24755

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow.

GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24755

Verification

vp test run apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.test.ts apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.test.ts: 51 passed across two files, independently rerun after refreshing main.
The startup regression failed before the implementation: expected a size below 17,825,792 bytes, received 17,825,802. It passes after the fix. Additional tests verify archive-copy failure and recurring maintenance with a controlled timer and a child IPC milestone.
Server typecheck and scoped lint passed. Two independent reviewers found no blocking findings in the final diff.
Real systemd runtime: startup and a second maintenance pass preserved the live inode and writes through an append descriptor opened before startup. Archive contents and post-truncation markers were verified. The second pass invoked the exported maintenance function; the production ten-minute timer is covered by the focused test.

Evidence (server-only; visual fixture matrix is empty):

Before	After	Reproduction source
Healthy server on main; seeded log grew without rotation. Red regression failure is explicitly labeled historical.	Sanitized runtime transcript and test results	Runtime driver and fixture sources

The 10 MiB value is a periodic threshold, not a hard ceiling. The single archive can exceed it, and lines written between copying and truncation can be lost. Existing pinned launchers need a local service update; updating only the server child does not activate this change. Maintainer-only installs using a dev log directory are outside this path. macOS launchd runtime is unverified (cannot-verify macos-launchd).

Models: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol. Harnesses: Claude Agent SDK and Codex, orchestrated through T3 Code.

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Added 3 commits18d ago

fix(server): bound boot-service.log while the service runs245e27b
test(server): reproduce issue 24755 unbounded boot-service.log40ef795
fix(server): truncate boot-service.log even when its archive copy failse285b17

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Installed boot-service logs now rotate automatically above 10 MiB, retaining one best-effort archive. This changes default log retention and can permanently discard diagnostic history, requiring a human to accept that tradeoff.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 3a8c250 · PR result: da03478 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

The launcher now checks boot-service.log at startup and every 10 minutes. If the log exceeds 10 MiB, it attempts to copy the log to a .1 archive and truncate the live file. The filename is defined in the service protocol and used by the launcher and boot service configuration.

Changes: Boot service log

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared service-log path `apps/server/src/cloud/serviceProtocol.ts`, `apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts`, `apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts`	The service protocol exports `SERVICE_LOG_FILE`. The boot service configuration and launcher use it to identify `boot-service.log`.
Log bounding and launcher lifecycle `apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts`, `apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.test.ts`	The launcher checks the log at startup and every 10 minutes. For logs larger than 10 MiB, it attempts to copy the file to a `.1` archive and truncate the live file. Tests cover an open append writer, archive failure, and recurring checks.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid

1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant Launcher.run
3	participant boundServiceLog
4	participant FileSystem
5	Launcher.run->>boundServiceLog: Queue initial and recurring checks
6	boundServiceLog->>FileSystem: Check boot-service.log size
7	boundServiceLog->>FileSystem: Copy oversized log to boot-service.log.1
8	boundServiceLog->>FileSystem: Truncate live log

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The launcher now bounds boot-service.log by archiving and truncating it in place. A failed archive copy no longer destroys the previous archive. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rotating the boot service log in place. It uses the repository's conventional commit format.
Description check	Passed	The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the issue, implementation, linked issue, focused test results, runtime verification, …
Linked Issues check	Passed	Issue [`#24755`] requires bounded growth for `boot-service.log` while systemd or launchd keeps the file open. `boundServiceLog` checks the shared log path, copies an oversized file to a temporary `.1` a…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changes stay within issue [`#24755`]. They add launcher log maintenance, share the service log filename with boot-service rendering, and add focused tests for the maintenance behavior. No unrelated …

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The description includes all required sections: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification. It explains the issue, implementation, linked issue, focused test results, runtime verification, and known limitations.

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Issue [#24755] requires bounded growth for boot-service.log while systemd or launchd keeps the file open. boundServiceLog checks the shared log path, copies an oversized file to a temporary .1 archive, renames the archive, and truncates the live file in place. Archive failure does not block truncation. The launcher performs the check at startup and on the ten-minute interval. The focused tests cover the open append descriptor, copy failure, and recurring maintenance. The shared SERVICE_LOG_FILE constant keeps the generated service paths aligned with the launcher path.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes stay within issue [#24755]. They add launcher log maintenance, share the service log filename with boot-service rendering, and add focused tests for the maintenance behavior. No unrelated product behavior appears in the reviewed changes.

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apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.tslines 106–109Outdated · e285b17Open thread

…	…	@@ -83,6 +87,28 @@ async function pathExists(target: string): Promise<boolean> {
	106	+	await NodeFSP.copyFile(logPath, archivePath).catch(() =>
	107	+	NodeFSP.rm(archivePath, { force: true }).catch(() => undefined),
	108	+	);
	109	+	await NodeFSP.truncate(logPath, 0).catch(() => undefined);

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1	set -o pipefail
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3	rg -n -F --glob 'package.json' --glob '.json' --glob '.yml' --glob '*.yaml' -e '"engines"' -e '"node"' -e 'node-version' . \| head -200 \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
4	printf '%s\n' '--- service log and archive references ---'
5	rg -n -F --glob '.ts' --glob '.md' --glob '*.json' -e 'SERVICE_LOG_FILE' -e 'boot-service.log' -e '.1' -e 'best effort' apps/server packages docs .github 2>/dev/null \| head -300 \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
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7	sed -n '1,75p' apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts
8	rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -e 'SERVICE_LOG_FILE' apps/server/src packages 2>/dev/null \| head -100 \|\| test "$?" -eq 1
9	printf '%s\n' '--- focused tests around archive failure ---'
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Preserve an existing .1 archive when the replacement copy fails.

When .1 is a regular file and NodeFSP.copyFile fails after opening the destination, Node can remove the destination. The rejection handler removes the same path again before truncating the live log. Copy to a unique temporary file, replace .1 only after the copy succeeds, and remove only the temporary file on failure. Keep the best-effort truncation.

The failure test uses a directory as .1, so it does not cover loss of an existing regular archive. This is narrow diagnostic-history loss, so the classification is minor rather than major.

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7	Update the archive-copy flow around NodeFSP.copyFile to copy logPath to a unique
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9	failure, remove only the temporary file so an existing .1 archive remains
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Added 2 commits1d ago

Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-24755dbb3ac2
fix(server): keep the previous boot-service.log archive when a copy failsda03478

JJulius Marminge1d ago

The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/issue-24755 (head is now e285b17a3f); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

JJulius Marminge9h ago

Thanks for this. Main has the change since #34886.

Compared your full diff with main: the launcher now checks at startup and every ten minutes, copies logs above 10 MiB to one best-effort archive, and truncates the live file in place even if copying fails. This covers your log-bounding behavior, while also resolving the log path from the installed service configuration.

Closing as superseded.