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Summary

t3 update / t3 service install re-render the boot unit and drop user environment (including documented Bitbucket credentials). Preserving unknown Environment= / plist keys is fragile (systemd C-escapes corrupt on re-quote).

Instead, the launcher merges a documented env file at start:

  • Path: $T3CODE_HOME/service.env (default ~/.t3/service.env)
  • Format: KEY=VALUE via Node util.parseEnv
  • Missing file is a no-op
  • Unit-owned keys are skipped: PATH, T3CODE_HOME, T3_BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT, T3_SERVICE_LAUNCHER_CONTEXT

Background-service and source-control docs point at this file for Bitbucket and other user env.

Fixes #12626

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  • New Features

    • Added support for configuring background-service environment variables in service.env under the T3 home directory.
    • Bitbucket credentials and host/port settings persist across updates and service reinstallation.
    • Invalid or protected environment settings are safely ignored.
    • Environment changes take effect after restarting the background service.
  • Documentation

    • Added setup instructions, examples, restart guidance, and troubleshooting information for service.env.
    • Documented that rerunning service installation can repair a service reported as broken.

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Comment thread apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts Outdated
}
yield* writeDurably(unitPath, manager.render(plan));
const extraEnvironment = installed
? parseBootServiceUserEnvironment(yield* fs.readFileString(unitPath))

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🟠 High cloud/bootService.ts:1017

Reinstalling a systemd unit rewrites escaped environment values incorrectly: parseBootServiceUserEnvironment turns Environment="T3CODE_NOTE=hello\sworld" into hellosworld, while systemd interprets it as hello sworld; the restarted service therefore receives a different credential or configuration value. Preserve the raw assignment or apply systemd-compatible C-style unescaping before rendering, including \s, \t, \xNN, octal/Unicode escapes, and escaped backslashes.

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Reinstalling a systemd unit rewrites escaped environment values incorrectly: `parseBootServiceUserEnvironment` turns `Environment="T3CODE_NOTE=hello\sworld"` into `hellosworld`, while systemd interprets it as `hello sworld`; the restarted service therefore receives a different credential or configuration value. Preserve the raw assignment or apply systemd-compatible C-style unescaping before rendering, including `\s`, `\t`, `\xNN`, octal/Unicode escapes, and escaped backslashes.

Comment thread apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts Outdated
"WorkingDirectory=%h",
`Environment=T3CODE_HOME=${quoteSystemdValue(plan.baseDir)}`,
`Environment=${BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT_ENV}=${BOOT_SERVICE_UNIT_FILE}`,
...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${key}=${quoteSystemdValue(value)}`),

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🟠 High cloud/bootService.ts:229

User environment values containing whitespace are truncated when the unit is rendered, so an update rewrites the variable incorrectly and leaves the remainder as a stray token. quoteSystemdValue quotes only the value after KEY=, but systemd treats that quote as literal because quoting must begin at the start of the assignment item; quote the complete KEY=value assignment instead.

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...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${key}=${quoteSystemdValue(value)}`),
...extraEnvironment.map(([key, value]) => `Environment=${quoteSystemdValue(`${key}=${value}`)}`),
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User environment values containing whitespace are truncated when the unit is rendered, so an update rewrites the variable incorrectly and leaves the remainder as a stray token. `quoteSystemdValue` quotes only the value after `KEY=`, but systemd treats that quote as literal because quoting must begin at the start of the assignment item; quote the complete `KEY=value` assignment instead.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds an opt-in service.env production configuration path that propagates credentials and server settings into background-service processes. It also adds a line-level static-analysis suppression, while unresolved environment-rendering concerns remain, so human review is warranted.

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The service launcher now reads optional variables from service.env under T3 home, filters protected names, captures values at startup, and passes them to child processes. Tests cover parsing and startup behavior. Documentation describes configuration and Bitbucket troubleshooting.

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Service environment file support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Environment file contract and parsing
apps/server/src/cloud/serviceProtocol.ts, apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts, apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.test.ts
Defines SERVICE_ENV_FILE. Parses valid KEY=VALUE entries and excludes invalid or protected variables.
Launcher startup environment integration
apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts, apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.test.ts
Captures the merged service.env values at startup and uses them for child processes until the launcher restarts.
Service environment documentation
docs/user/background-service.md, docs/user/source-control.md
Documents the file location, restart requirement, Bitbucket configuration, and troubleshooting step.

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  participant main
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  participant Launcher
  participant ChildProcess
  main->>applyServiceEnvFile: Load and merge service.env
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  main->>Launcher: Pass startup environment
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #12626 requires service environment values to survive unit and plist regeneration, or requires a documented location that regeneration does not overwrite. At the reviewed head, `serviceLauncher.…
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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts`:
- Around line 124-126: Update the readQuoted parsing flow to decode systemd
C-style escapes, including \s, \t, hexadecimal, and Unicode escapes, before
quoteSystemdValue preserves Environment= values. Ensure escaped characters are
converted to their effective environment values rather than merely dropping the
backslash, while retaining existing handling for ordinary quoted content.
- Around line 1111-1112: Update the comparison around normalizeUnit and
detectedManager.render so systemd user environments are compared semantically
rather than by raw unit text. Normalize equivalent Environment= quoting and
ordering into a user-environment map, compare renderer-owned directives
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- Around line 59-75: Update unescapeXmlText to fully decode standard XML
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Comment thread apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +59 to +75
function unescapeXmlText(value: string): string {
return value.replaceAll("&lt;", "<").replaceAll("&gt;", ">").replaceAll("&amp;", "&");
}

function unquoteSystemdAssignmentValue(raw: string): string {
const trimmed = raw.trim();
const unquoted =
trimmed.startsWith('"') && trimmed.endsWith('"')
? trimmed.slice(1, -1).replaceAll('\\"', '"').replaceAll("\\\\", "\\")
: trimmed;
return unquoteSystemdToken(unquoted);
}

function unquoteSystemdToken(value: string): string {
return value.replaceAll("%%", "%");
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Decode all standard XML character references before preserving launchd environment values. unescapeXmlText does not decode &quot;, &apos;, or numeric references. During t3 service install, the parser keeps those references as text, and the renderer escapes their ampersands. The launchd environment can therefore change from " or ' to literal &quot; or &apos;. Use a complete XML text decoder for the shared parser boundary.

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Comment thread apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts Outdated
Comment on lines +124 to +126
if (current === "\\" && quote === '"' && index + 1 < raw.length) {
parsed += raw[index + 1] ?? "";
index += 2;

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For a unit-file Environment= assignment, systemd first applies the generic systemd.syntax(7) quoting rules. Double- and single-quoted items are supported, quote characters are removed, and C-style escapes are recognized; unknown escape forms are not portable and may produce a warning. Backslashes should therefore be doubled when a literal backslash is intended. [1] The relevant escape forms include \s for a space and \x20 for the space byte. Thus these are equivalent ways to set a value containing spaces: ini [Service] Environment=&quot;MY_VALUE=hello\sworld&quot; Environment=&quot;MY_VALUE=hello\x20world&quot; Both assign MY_VALUE the exact value hello world; they do not leave the characters \s or \x20 in the environment. The systemd test suite explicitly verifies both \s and \x20 as space escapes in quoted command-line parsing. [2] Environment= itself is a list of variable assignments. Each assignment is parsed as one item, so a value containing whitespace or = should be quoted as a whole assignment—for example: ini Environment=&quot;GREETING=hello\sworld&quot; OTHER=value Environment=&quot;URL=https://example.test/a=b\x20c&quot; Variable expansion is not performed inside the Environment= strings, and $ has no special meaning there; specifier expansion is separate and does apply. [3][4] The Environment= directive is documented in systemd.exec(5), while the escape syntax comes from systemd.syntax(7). [5][6] Important distinction: this applies to the unit-file Environment= setting, not automatically to EnvironmentFile=. The environment-file parser has its own format and quoting/escaping rules; systemd documentation was specifically corrected because describing EnvironmentFile= as accepting generic C escapes such as \t and \n was incorrect. [7][8] Practical recommendations: - Use Environment=&quot;NAME=value\swith\sspaces&quot; or Environment=&quot;NAME=value\x20with\x20spaces&quot; when you want an explicit escaped space. - A literal backslash should generally be written as \\ under the unit-file quoting rules. [1] - A literal percent used in a unit setting may require specifier escaping (%%), because specifier processing is independent of C-style escaping. [9] - Verify the resulting manager view with systemctl cat your.service and, when needed, inspect the service process environment (for example through /proc/$PID/environ). Sources reflect the current systemd documentation available for the requested date; distributions may ship an older systemd version, so the local systemd.syntax(7) and systemd.exec(5) pages remain authoritative for that installation.
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<title>systemd.syntax(7) - Linux manual page</title> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/systemd.syntax.7.html ``` For settings where quoting is allowed, the following general rules apply: double quotes ("...") and single quotes (&`#39`;...&`#39`;) may be used to wrap a whole item (the opening quote may appear only at the beginning or after whitespace that is not quoted, and the closing quote must be followed by whitespace or the end of line), in which case everything until the next matching quote becomes part of the same item. Quotes themselves are removed. C-style escapes are supported. The table below contains the list of known escape patterns. Only escape patterns which match the syntax in the table are allowed; other patterns may be added in the future and unknown patterns will result in a warning. In particular, any backslashes should be doubled. Finally, a trailing backslash ("\") may be used to merge lines, as described above. UTF-8 is accepted, and hence typical unicode characters do not need to be escaped. Table 1. Supported escapes ┌──────────────┬─────────────────────────┐ │ Literal │ Actual value │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\a" │ bell │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\b" │ backspace │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\f" │ form feed │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\n" │ newline │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\r" │ carriage return │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\t" │ tab │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\v" │ vertical tab │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\\" │ backslash │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\"" │ double quotation mark │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\&`#39`;" │ single quotation mark │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\s" │ space │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\xxx" │ character number xx in │ │ │ hexadecimal encoding │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\nnn" │ character number nnn in │ │ │ octal encoding │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\unnnn" │ unicode code point nnnn │ │ │ in hexadecimal encoding │ ├──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ "\Unnnnnnnn" │ unicode code point │ │ │ nnnnnnnn in hexadecimal │ │ │ encoding │ └──────────────┴─────────────────────────┘ <title>src/test/test-load-fragment.c</title> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/7273d383/src/test/test-load-fragment.c (config_parse_exec) { /* int config_parse_exec( const char ... unit, const char *filename, unsigned line, const char *section, unsigned section_line, const char *lvalue, int ltype, const char *rvalue, void *data, ... *userdata) */ int r; ... (config_ ... "/bin/ ... bin/find", ... _parse_ ... ", 5, " ... ", 1, ... _info(" ... _OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, " ... ", 5, "section", ... Value", ... 1 = c1-> ... _execc ... mand(c1, ... log_info("/* spaces in the filename, everything quoted */"); ASSERT_OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1, " ... Value", ... SPACES/ ... c, u)); ... c1 = c1->command_next; check_execcommand(c1, "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1", "- ... ", false); ... log_info("/* escaped spaces in the filename */"); ASSERT_OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "\"/PATH\\sWITH\\sSPACES/daemon\" &`#39`;-1 -2&`#39`;", &c, u)); c1 = c1->command_next; check_execcommand(c1, "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1 -2", NULL, false); log_info("/* escaped spaces in the filename (2) */"); ASSERT_OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "\"/PATH\\x20WITH\\x20SPACES/daemon\" \"-1 -2\"", &c, u)); c1 = c1->command_next; check_execcommand(c1, "/PATH WITH SPACES/daemon", NULL, "-1 -2", NULL, false); for (ccc = "abfnrtv\\\&`#39`;\"x"; *ccc; ccc++) { /* \\x is an incomplete hexadecimal sequence, invalid because of the slash */ char path[] = "/path\\X"; path[sizeof(path) - 2] = *ccc; log_info("/* invalid character: \\%c */", *ccc); ASSERT_ERROR(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, path, &c, u), ENOEXEC); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); } log_info("/* valid character: \\s */"); ASSERT_OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "/path\\s", &c, u)); c1 = c1->command_next; check_execcommand(c1, "/path ", NULL, NULL, NULL, false); log_info("/* quoted backslashes */"); ASSERT_OK(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 5, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "/bin/grep &`#39`;\\w+\\K&`#39`;", &c, u)); c1 = c1->command_next; check_execcommand(c1, "/bin/grep", NULL, "\\w+\\K", NULL, false); log_info("/* trailing backslash: \\ */"); /* backslash is invalid */ ASSERT_ERROR(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "/path\\", &c, u), ENOEXEC); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); log_info("/* missing ending &`#39`; */"); ASSERT_ERROR(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "/path &`#39`;foo", &c, u), ENOEXEC); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); log_info("/* missing ending &`#39`; with trailing backslash */"); ASSERT_ERROR(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "/path &`#39`;foo\\", &c, u), ENOEXEC); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); log_info("/* invalid space between modifiers */"); ASSERT_OK_ZERO(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "- /path", &c, u)); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); log_info("/* only modifiers, no path */"); ASSERT_OK_ZERO(config_parse_exec(NULL, "fake", 4, "section", 1, "LValue", 0, "-", &c, u)); ASSERT_NULL(c1->command_next); log_info("/* long arg */"); /* See issue `#22957`. */ char x[LONG_LINE_MAX-100], *y; y = mempcpy(x, "/bin/echo ", STRLEN("…[truncated] <title>[systemd-commits] 10 commits - Makefile.am man/systemd.exec.xml src/core TODO</title> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-commits/2013-January/003057.html Date: Thu Jan 24 18:06:00 2013 +0100 man: systemd.exec - explicit Environment assignment Hi all, while working on another bug, I discovered the "strange" way systemd is parsing Environment= in .service and thought it was worth documenting (because I don&`#39`;t expect people to find this syntax by themselves unless they read the parsing code ;) Be more verbose about using space in Environment field and not using value of other variables Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840260 [zj: expand and reformat the example a bit] ... diff --git a/man/systemd.exec.xml b/man/systemd.exec.xml index 8a22ac0..a0fca59 100644 --- a/man/systemd.exec.xml +++ b/man/systemd.exec.xml @@ -286,9 +286,24 @@ empty string is assigned to this option the list of environment variables is reset, all prior - assignments have no effect. See + assignments have no effect. + Variable expansion is not performed + inside the strings, and $ has no special + meaning. + If you need to assign a value containing spaces + to a variable, use double quotes (") + for the assignment.</para> + + <para>Example: + <programlisting>Environment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=word 5 6"</programlisting> + gives three variables <literal>VAR1</literal>, + <literal>VAR2</literal>, <literal>VAR3</literal>. + </para> + + <para> + See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>environ</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> - for details.</para></listitem> + for details about environment variables.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>EnvironmentFile=</varname></term> <title>Issues in man pages</title> GitHub issue 20297 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) journal-remote.conf.5 Issue: B<systemd.syntax>(5) → B<systemd.syntax>(7) "These files configure various parameters of B<systemd-journal-remote." "service>(8)\\&. See B<systemd.syntax>(5) for a general description of the " "syntax\\&." ... Issue: systemd.syntax(5) → systemd.syntax(7)? "Sets environment variables for executed processes\\&. Each line is unquoted " "using the rules described in \"Quoting\" section in B<systemd.syntax>(5) " "and becomes a list of variable assignments\\&. If you need to assign a value " "containing spaces or the equals sign to a variable, put quotes around the " "whole assignment\\&. Variable expansion is not performed inside the strings " "and the \"$\" character has no special meaning\\&. Specifier expansion is " "performed, see the \"Specifiers\" section in B<systemd.unit>(5)\\&." -- ... Issue: systemd.syntax(7) does not know a section \"Quoting\" and systemd.syntax(5) does not exist "Each command line is unquoted using the rules described in \"Quoting\" " "section in B<systemd.syntax>(5)\\&. The first item becomes the command to " "execute, and the subsequent items the arguments\\&." -- <title>systemd.exec</title> https://freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.exec.html systemd.exec —Execution environment configuration ... Takes a colon separated list of absolute paths relative to which the executable used by the`Exec\*=`(e.g.`ExecStart=`,`ExecStop=`, etc.) properties can be found.`ExecSearchPath=`overrides`$PATH`if`$PATH`is not supplied by the user through`Environment=`,`EnvironmentFile=`or`PassEnvironment=`. Assigning an empty string removes previous assignments ... and setting`ExecSearchPath=`to a value multiple times will append to the previous setting. ... `SetLoginEnvironment=`¶ ... `RuntimeDirectory=`,`StateDirectory=`,`CacheDirectory=`,`LogsDirectory=`,`ConfigurationDirectory=`¶

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Decode systemd C-style escapes before preserving Environment= values.

readQuoted removes the backslash from every \X pair. Therefore, Environment="NOTE=left\sright" becomes leftsright before quoteSystemdValue re-renders it. The same issue affects \t, \x20, and Unicode escapes. Use a systemd-compatible decoder so reinstalling a unit preserves the effective environment value.

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In systemd service unit files, the Environment= directive is used to set environment variables for executed processes [1][2][3]. Regarding the ordering and placement of this directive: 1. Ordering and Precedence: When the Environment= directive is specified multiple times, all listed variables are set [4][3]. If the same variable is defined more than once, the later setting overrides any earlier setting [4][3]. Assigning an empty string to Environment= resets the list of environment variables, effectively clearing all prior assignments [4][3]. 2. Interaction with EnvironmentFile=: While Environment= and EnvironmentFile= are both used to define environment variables, their interaction is governed by the order in which they appear in the unit file [5]. Generally, settings defined later in the configuration file (or in later-processed drop-in files) take precedence over those defined earlier [5][4]. 3. Placement: The Environment= directive is a configuration option that belongs in the [Service] section of a service unit file [1][2]. It is documented under the execution environment settings, which are shared across various unit types and detailed in the systemd.exec(5) manual page [1][2][6]. In summary, the placement of Environment= must be within the [Service] section, and its effective value is determined by its position relative to other Environment= or EnvironmentFile= directives, with later definitions overriding earlier ones [5][4][3].
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<title>systemd.service</title> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/249/systemd.service.html common options of all ... Service files must include a [Service] section, which carries information about the service and the process it supervises. A number of options that may be used in this section are shared with other unit types. These options are documented insystemd.exec(5),systemd.kill(5)andsystemd.resource-control(5). ... "`@`", "`-`", "`:`", and one of "`+`"/"`!`"/"`!!`" may be used together and they can appear in any order. However, only one of "`+`", "`!`", "`!!`" may be used at a time. Note that these prefixes are also supported for the other command line settings, i.e.`ExecStartPre=`,`ExecStartPost=`,`ExecReload=`,`ExecStop=`and`ExecStopPost=`. ... `ExecStartPre=`,`ExecStartPost=`¶ ... that are executed before ... Note that the execution of`ExecStartPost=`is taken into account for ... Before=`/`After=`ordering ... ## Command lines¶ ... This section describes command line parsing and variable and specifier substitutions for`ExecStart=`,`ExecStartPre=`,`ExecStartPost=`,`ExecReload=`,`ExecStop=`, and`ExecStopPost=`options. ... ``` Environment="ONE=one" &`#39`;TWO=two two&`#39`; ExecStart=echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO} ... ``` Environment=ONE=&`#39`;one&`#39`; "TWO=&`#39`;two two&`#39`; too" THREE= ... =/bin/echo ${ONE} ${TWO} ${THREE} ... =/bin/ ... $TWO $THREE ... Variables to be used in this fashion may be defined through`Environment=`and`EnvironmentFile=`. In addition, variables listed in the section "Environment variables in spawned processes" insystemd.exec(5), which are considered "static configuration", may be used (this includes e.g.`$USER`, but not`$TERM`). <title>systemd.service(5) — Arch manual pages</title> https://man.archlinux.org/man/core/systemd/systemd.service.5.en the execution environment the ... are executed in, and in systemd ... kill(5), which ... the way the processes of the ... are terminated, and in systemd ... -control(5), which configure ... control settings for the processes of ... Service unit files must include a [Service] section, which carries information about the service and the process it supervises. A number of options that may be used in this section are shared with other unit types. These options are documented in systemd.exec(5), systemd.kill(5) and systemd.resource-control(5). The options specific to the [Service] section of service units are the following: ... Note that the execution of ExecStartPost= is taken into account for the purpose of Before=/ After= ordering constraints. ... Basic environment variable substitution is supported. Use "${FOO}" as part of a word, or as a word of its own, on the command line, in which case it will be erased and replaced by the exact value of the environment variable (if any) including all whitespace it contains, always resulting in exactly a single argument. Use "$FOO" as a separate word on the command line, in which case it will be replaced by the value of the environment variable split at whitespace, resulting in zero or more arguments. For this type of expansion, quotes are respected when splitting into words, and afterwards removed. ... ``` Environment="ONE=one" &`#39`;TWO=two two&`#39`; ExecStart=echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO} ... Variables to be used in this fashion may be defined through Environment= and EnvironmentFile=. In addition, variables listed in the section "Environment variables in spawned processes" in systemd.exec(5), which are considered "static configuration", may be used (this includes e.g. $USER, but not $TERM). <title>Using environment variables in systemd units | Flatcar Container Linux</title> https://www.flatcar.org/docs/latest/setup/systemd/environment-variables/ Using environment variables in systemd units | Flatcar Container Linux Using environment variables in systemd units | Flatcar Container Linux Search docs… S # Using environment variables in systemd units ## Environment directive systemd has an Environment directive which sets environment variables for executed processes. It takes a space-separated list of variable assignments. This option may be specified more than once in which case all listed variables will be set. If the same variable is set twice, the later setting will override the earlier setting. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the list of environment variables is reset, all prior assignments have no effect. Environments directives are used in built-in Flatcar Container Linux systemd units, for example in etcd2 and flannel. With the example below, you can configure your etcd2 daemon to use encryption. Just create`/etc/systemd/system/etcd2.service.d/30-certificates.conf` drop-in for etcd2.service: ``` [Service] # Client Env Vars Environment=ETCD_CA_FILE=/path/to/CA.pem Environment=ETCD_CERT_FILE=/path/to/server.crt Environment=ETCD_KEY_FILE=/path/to/server.key # Peer Env Vars Environment=ETCD_PEER_CA_FILE=/path/to/CA.pem Environment=ETCD_PEER_CERT_FILE=/path/to/peers.crt Environment=ETCD_PEER_KEY_FILE=/path/to/peers.key ``` Then run`sudo systemctl daemon-reload` and`sudo systemctl restart etcd2.service` to apply new environments to etcd2 daemon. You can read more about etcd2 certificates here. ## EnvironmentFile directive EnvironmentFile similar to Environment directive but reads the environment variables from a text file. The text file should contain new-line-separated variable assignments. For example, in Flatcar Container Linux, the`coreos-metadata.service` service creates`/run/metadata/coreos`. This environment file can be included by other services in order to inject dynamic configuration. Here’s an example of the environment file when run on DigitalOcean (the IP addresses have been removed): ``` COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_ANCHOR_0=X.X.X.X COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PRIVATE_0=X.X.X.X COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_HOSTNAME=test.example.com COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PUBLIC_0=X.X.X.X COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV6_PUBLIC_0=X:X:X:X:X:X:X:X ``` This environment file can then be sourced and its variables used. Here is an example drop-in for`etcd-member.service` which starts`coreos-metadata.service` and then uses the generated results: ``` [Unit] Requires=coreos-metadata.service After=coreos-metadata.service [Service] EnvironmentFile=/run/metadata/coreos ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/etcd2 \ --advertise-client-urls=http://${COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PUBLIC_0}:2379 \ --initial-advertise-peer-urls=http://${COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PRIVATE_0}:2380 \ --listen-client-urls=http://0.0.0.0:2379 \ --listen-peer-urls=http://${COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PRIVATE_0}:2380 \ --initial-cluster=%m=http://${COREOS_DIGITALOCEAN_IPV4_PRIVATE_0}:2380 ``` ## Other examples ### Use host IP addresses and EnvironmentFile You can also write your host IP addresses into`/etc/network-environment` file using this utility. Then you can run your Docker containers following way: ``` [Unit] Description=Nginx service Requires=etcd2.service After=etcd2.service [Service] # Get network environmental variables EnvironmentFile=/etc/network-environment ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker kill nginx ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm nginx ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker pull nginx ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/etcdctl set /services/nginx &`#39`;{"host": "%H", "ipv4_addr": ${DEFAULT_IPV4}, "port": 80}&`#39`; ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --rm --name nginx -p ${DEFAULT_IPV4}:80:80 nginx ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop nginx ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/etcdctl rm /services/nginx ``` This unit file will run nginx Docker container and bind it to specific IP address and port. ### System wide environment variables You can define system wide environment variables using a Butane Config as explained below: ```…[truncated] <title>exec.rs - source</title> https://docs.rs/systemd_unit/latest/src/systemd_unit/exec.rs.html 57//! Additional variables may be configured by the following means: for processes 58//! spawned in specific units, use the Environment= and EnvironmentFile= options ... 59//! above; to specify variables globally, use DefaultEnvironment= (see ... 60//! systemd-system.conf(5)) or the kernel option systemd.setenv= (see ... 61//! systemd(1)). Additional variables ... through PAM, cf ... systemd.unit ... 5), system ... 5), and 1 ... .mount(5) ... specific unit configuration ... Service], [Socket], ... depending on the unit 109 ... 160 /// Environment= Sets environment variables for executed processes. Takes a 161 /// space-separated list of variable assignments. This option may be specified 162 /// more than once in which case all listed variables will be set. If the same 163 /// variable is set twice, the later setting will override the earlier setting. ... 164 /// If the empty string is assigned to this option, the list of environment 165 /// variables is reset, all prior assignments have no effect. Variable expansion 166 /// is not performed inside the strings, however, specifier expansion is 167 /// possible. The $ character has no special meaning. If you need to assign a 168 /// value containing spaces to a variable, use double quotes (") for the 169 /// assignment. ... 170 /// 171 /// Example: 172 /// 173 /// ```systemd 174 /// Environment="VAR1=word1 word2" VAR2=word3 "VAR3=$word 5 6" 175 /// ``` 176 /// 177 /// gives three variables "VAR1", "VAR2", "VAR3" with the values "word1 word2", "word3", "$word 5 6". 178 /// 179 /// See environ(7) for details about environment variables. ... 180 pub environment: Option<Vec<EnvVar>>, ... 182 ... EnvironmentFile= ... /// Similar to Environment= but reads the environment variables ... a text file. The text file should contain new-line-separated variable assignments. Empty lines, lines without an "=" separator, or lines starting with ; or # will be ignored, which may be used for commenting. A line ending with a backslash will be concatenated with the following one, allowing multiline variable definitions. The parser strips leading and trailing whitespace from the values of assignments, unless you use double quotes ("). ... 190 /// Settings from these files override settings made with Environment=. If the same variable is set twice from these files, the files will be read in the order they are specified and the later setting will override the earlier setting. <title>Unable to override environment setting from EnvironmentFile= · Issue `#9788` · systemd/systemd</title> GitHub issue 9788 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) > Ah, please forget my previous comment. The behavior is documented. Please see systemd.exec(5). ... > I was talking to `@jrollins` earlier on irc... > > My idea for this was to replace the separate fields we have (`environment`, `environment_files`, `pass_environment`) with a single field that encodes `(type, value)` or `(type, name, value)` and then process those in order. So we could mix `Environment=`, `EnvironmentFile=` and `PassEnvironment=` in any order and have that preserved when the actual environment gets computed... > > It&`#39`;s a change of behavior, but I really doubt someone would ... *relying* on the current ordering behavior ... > > > ... think adding a prefix to `Environment=` may be sufficient ... > > ... a new configuration variable, a new setting that would be processed after the environment files? ... > `@filbranden` > > > So we could mix `Environment=`, `EnvironmentFile=` and `PassEnvironment=` in any order and have that preserved when the actual environment gets computed... > > But changing to that causes backward incompatibility... `Environment=` or friends are not recently added settings. So, I think we should not change the current behavior. > > > > I think adding a prefix to `Environment=` may be sufficient. > > > You mean a new configuration variable, a new setting that would be processed after the environment files? > > My proposal is just adding a new prefix, say &`#39`;+&`#39`; can be added each entry of `Environment=`, > e.g. `Environment=VAR1=aaa +VAR2=bbb VAR3=ccc`, then making the prefixed entries have precedence than `EnvironmentFiles=` or `PassEnvironment=` . > > Current: > `Environment=` -> `EnvironmentFile=` -> `PassEnvironment=` -> `UnsetEnvironment=` ... > My proposal: > `Environment=` without prefix -> `EnvironmentFile=` -> `PassEnvironment=` -> `Environment=` with prefix -> `UnsetEnvironment=` > > This proposal has backward compatibility, and is not hard to implement, I guess. What do you think about? ... > The ordering is currently explicitly documented, see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html#Environment%20variables%20in%20spawned%20processes (the paragraph immediatelly following the itemized list). > > Any change in the ordering is hence compat breakage and I am not too happy about those... > > Quite frankly, I am very sure adding EnvironmentFile= was actually a bad idea in retrospect. This particular makes me pretty conservative on making further changes to it and teaching it new tricks... > > I&`#39`;d really look at the original usecase though: drop-ins into the template unit should work fine for it, and are fully supported. If they don&`#39`;t work (did you do daemon-reload?) then this is the bug to fix here, but we shouldn&`#39`;t touch the env var processing ordering unless there&`#39`;s a really really strong reason... ... > > I&`#39`;d really look at the original usecase though: drop-ins into the template unit should work fine for it, and are fully supported. > > Yes, correct, that works. > > The problem originally reported here is that it&`#39`;s not possible to use a drop-in with `Environment=VAR2=xxx` to override a unit file that has `EnvironmentFile=/path/to/xyz.env` and xyz.env has `VAR2=bbb`. > > Pushing a drop-in with `EnvironmentFile=/path/to/override-xyz.env` where override-xyz.env has `VAR2=xxx` would work, but that means you have to create two files and you need to care whether the original unit sets variables from `Environment=` or `EnvironmentFile=`... > > The change in behavior if we preserve original orderings (in other words, process all environment settings in the order they&`#39`;re defined) will only affect cases where there&`#39`;s more than one setting for the same variable and in which the last one is not already "winning"... I agree it&`#39`;s a compat c…[truncated]

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Compare systemd user environment semantically.

normalizeUnit does not normalize systemd content. The parser converts Environment="T3CODE_PORT=1234" into the same environment pair that the renderer emits as Environment=T3CODE_PORT=1234. These strings differ, so a valid unit can report current: false even though its effective environment matches the plan. The same applies when a valid Environment= entry appears at another position in [Service]; the parser retains it, but the renderer moves it to its canonical block.

Compare the renderer-owned directives separately from a normalized user-environment map, or canonicalize only user-owned Environment= directives before comparing current.

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In `@apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts` around lines 1111 - 1112, Update the
comparison around normalizeUnit and detectedManager.render so systemd user
environments are compared semantically rather than by raw unit text. Normalize
equivalent Environment= quoting and ordering into a user-environment map,
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The bug is real and the round-trip tests are good, but this implements the option the triage on #12626 steered away from: "Likely fix: an optional env file under T3 home that the launcher merges... Preserving unknown plist/unit keys is more fragile." The fragility shows up concretely here: parseSystemdEnvironmentAssignments does not unescape systemd C-style escapes (\\s, \\xNN), so a user-written Environment= line containing one gets re-quoted through quoteSystemdValue on the next t3 update and the backslash doubles — the first re-render silently corrupts the value. That is the class of bug the env-file approach avoids entirely, because the launcher never has to parse what it wrote.

Please redo this as the env file: a documented env file (or similar) under T3 home that the service launcher merges into its environment at start, with the background-service and source-control guides pointing at it. That is smaller than what is here (no tokenizer, no plist regex), survives every re-render by construction, and gives the Bitbucket credentials a stable home. If you think preserving unit keys is the better model, say why on #12626 first so we can settle it before more code.

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Agreed — redoing this as a documented env file under T3 home that the launcher merges at start (no unit/plist Environment= round-trip). Will push on this branch and update the background-service / source-control docs.

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re-render without parsing unit Environment= lines.

Fixes pingdotgg#12626

Co-authored-by: Cestercian <yashafaid@gmail.com>
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@cestercian cestercian changed the title fix(server): preserve extra env when re-rendering the boot service unit fix(server): merge T3-home service.env into the background launcher Sep 20, 2026
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@juliusmarminge Redone as the env-file approach on 8f145a9:

  • Dropped unit/plist Environment= round-tripping (and the tokenizer / unescape path).
  • Launcher merges $T3CODE_HOME/service.env at start (and overlays on each child spawn).
  • Docs updated in background-service.md and source-control.md.

Ready for another look when you have a moment.

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In `@apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts`:
- Line 478: Update main() and `#startChild` so the environment produced by the
single startup merge is captured and reused for every child process. Remove the
per-spawn readServiceEnvFile(this.#baseDir) overlay from `#startChild`, and pass
the captured startup environment through each spawn without rereading
service.env.

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@juliusmarminge Follow-up: the Macroscope/CodeRabbit threads that still point at bootService.ts Environment= parse/unescape are from the previous unit-key approach. That code is gone on current head 8f145a9 — the PR only merges $T3CODE_HOME/service.env in the launcher. Ready for re-review when you can.

CodeRabbit noted #startChild reread service.env on every spawn, so a
deleted variable could stay in process.env and mix with the current
file. Load once in main() and pass that map to each child.

Co-authored-by: Cestercian <yashafaid@gmail.com>
Comment thread apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts Outdated
Windows env names are case-insensitive, so Path= and t3code_home= were
slipping past the managed-name filter and overwriting PATH/T3CODE_HOME.

Co-authored-by: Cestercian <yashafaid@gmail.com>

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