From 54a99e16ea0fbec0f43179566b8827e070d2b707 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 06:10:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] minor fixes

---
 brc           | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 system-status |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/brc b/brc
index 6a6565a..97f5c34 100644
--- a/brc
+++ b/brc
@@ -2804,17 +2804,33 @@ serstat() {
 
 # journalctl -f FINAL_ARG, then systemctl $@ .
 # detects any existing background job so we can
-# run multiple times without making duplicate output.
+# run multiple times without making duplicate output. todo: not right now.
 serj() {
-  local service jr_pid ret jobs_out regex
+  local service jr_pid ret regex tmpstr found_job
+  local -a jobs_out
   ret=0
   service="${*: -1}"
-  jobs_out=$(jobs 2>/dev/null)
-  regex="^[^[:space]]+[[:space:]]+Running[[:space:]]+ journalctl -qn2 -f -u $service &"
+  tmpstr=$(jobs 2>/dev/null)
+  mapfile -t jobs_out <<<"$tmpstr"
+  found_job=false
+  regex="^[^[:space:]]+[[:space:]]+Running[[:space:]]+ journalctl --since=now -qn2 -f -u $service &"
+  for line in "${jobs_out[@]}"; do
+    if [[ $line =~ $regex ]]; then
+      found_job=true
+    fi
+  done
 
-  journalctl -qn2 -f -u "$service" &
-  sleep 3
-  s systemctl "$@" || ret=$?
+  if ! $found_job; then
+    journalctl --since=now -qn2 -f -u "$service" &
+    sleep 3
+  fi
+  if [[ $EUID == 0 ]]; then
+    systemctl "$@" || ret=$?
+  else
+    # it adds like 50 chars of whitespace to each log line without
+    # --no-block. its some interaction with sudo i guess?
+    s systemctl --no-block "$@" || ret=$?
+  fi
   if (( ret != 0 )); then
     echo "serj: note: systemctl returned nonzero, but journalctl worked and is running."
     return $ret
diff --git a/system-status b/system-status
index d116534..95cf0c0 100755
--- a/system-status
+++ b/system-status
@@ -444,6 +444,8 @@ write-status() {
   if [[ ! -e $status_file || -w $status_file ]]; then
     if [[ -e /a/bin/bash_unpublished/source-state ]]; then
       cat /a/bin/bash_unpublished/source-state >$status_file
+    else
+      sed -i --follow-symlinks '/^ps_char=/d' $status_file
     fi
 
     if [[ ${chars[*]} ]]; then
-- 
2.30.2