-e() { echo "$*"; "$@"; }
-
-# scripts that would interfere with unmounting /a, put them elsewhere
-e install guest-apt mount-latest-subvol check-subvol-stale /usr/local/bin
+# scripts that would interfere with unmounting /a, put them elsewhere.
+# note: previously used the install command, but it had this habit of
+# like, once a month or so the files would be "not found" by a script
+# trying to use them, within a few minute of the last time this
+# ran. Very strange, dunno why, but rsync won't do anything unless these
+# changed, so that should fix it.
+rsync -t --chmod=755 --chown=root:root /a/bin/log-quiet/log-once switch-mail-host btrbk-run mount-latest-subvol \
+ check-subvol-stale system-status /usr/local/bin
+rsync -t --chmod=755 --chown=root:root /a/bin/errhandle/err /usr/local/lib