From d9be69d3a927e4078dc6ff7994c693609b6207d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franziska Kunsmann <hi@kunsmann.eu>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:26:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bundles/systemd-timers: don't auto-reset alerts

---
 .../systemd-timers/files/check_systemd_timer  | 20 ++++++++-----------
 .../files/systemd-timer-monitored             |  9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bundles/systemd-timers/files/check_systemd_timer b/bundles/systemd-timers/files/check_systemd_timer
index c037641..8609cd4 100644
--- a/bundles/systemd-timers/files/check_systemd_timer
+++ b/bundles/systemd-timers/files/check_systemd_timer
@@ -8,17 +8,13 @@ fi
 
 if ! [[ -f "/var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$1" ]]
 then
-    echo "No status file found"
-    exit 3
-fi
-
-exitcode="$(cat "/var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$1")"
-
-echo "Last timer run exited $exitcode"
-
-if [[ $exitcode -ne 0 ]]
-then
-    exit 2
-else
+    echo "Everything is fine"
     exit 0
 fi
+
+date="$(date --date="@$(cat "/var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$1")" "+%F %T %z")"
+
+echo "Timer had an error during its run on $date"
+echo
+echo "Remove /var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$1 to clean this alert"
+exit 2
diff --git a/bundles/systemd-timers/files/systemd-timer-monitored b/bundles/systemd-timers/files/systemd-timer-monitored
index 8af40f8..d9a2482 100644
--- a/bundles/systemd-timers/files/systemd-timer-monitored
+++ b/bundles/systemd-timers/files/systemd-timer-monitored
@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@
 timer="$1"
 shift
 
-# Simple wrapper script that stores the exit code of a command into a file
 "$@"
 exitcode=$?
 
-echo "$exitcode" > "/var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$timer"
+if [[ $exitcode -ne 0 ]]
+then
+    echo "$(date -u +%s)" > "/var/lib/systemd-timer-monitored/$timer"
+fi
+
+# to make systemd aware of the error, too.
+exit $exitcode