PM2's cron for autofirmer-update dies inside a live daemon (six Windows
machines in October), and nothing on the machine noticed. The app now
watches scripts/.last-check and, past 10 minutes, runs
update-check.mjs --heal: a checker PM2 still lists is restarted (which
re-registers its cron), one it lost is registered again, and one whose
errored entry still holds a live pid is left alone, since PM2 would kill
that pid. The heal scrubs PM2's per-app fields from its environment first.
The master's new 'update-now' command runs --heal --now, skipping a
failed update's retry wait. A failed pull, npm install or build records
one line of reason (or the chown to run when a file isn't ours), which
rides on .last-check to the master. A package-lock.json rewritten by npm
is put back before the pull. The fetch timeout drops under the cron's
minute. scripts/.no-auto-update opts a checkout out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
