The hall keeps the night on the shared host: one job runs every game's rollup and backup and checks in with Sentry once for each

Eight cron monitors, two per game, watched eight scripts that run on the
same box at the same two minutes. hall-nightly.sh now runs the hall's own
rollup and every game's rollup at 00:12, and every game's backup at 07:23,
finding the games by their scripts in /usr/local/bin, and checks in once
for each job to the gamehall project's hall-rollup and hall-backup
monitors. The template's rollup and backup say by their exit status
whether they managed, the skipped backup included, and its deploy leaves
the game's own cron file off a host the hall schedules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

template/deploy/__SLUG__-backup.sh

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 # Ledgers are append-only JSONL; the game server never needs stopping.
 # Sentry Crons check-in: /root/.__SLUG__-sentry-cron holds the check-in
 # URL (absent file = no check-ins). SCHEDULE must match /etc/cron.d/__SLUG__.
+# On a host the hall shares, hall-nightly.sh runs this and checks in once
+# for every game, so the file is absent and the exit status is the word.
 set -u
 SCHEDULE="23 7 * * *"
 BUCKET="kestrel-wizwar-backups" # the hall's shared Space, named for its first tenant
@@ -27,9 +29,10 @@ checkin() {
 
 if [ ! -s /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf ]; then
   echo "$(date -Is) skipped: rclone is not configured" >> "$LOG"
-  exit 0
+  exit 1
 fi
 
+status=0
 {
   echo "=== $(date -Is) backup start"
   if rclone sync "$SRC" "spaces:$BUCKET/$PREFIX/current" --exclude 'rollup.jsonl' 2>&1 &&
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ fi
     checkin ok
   else
     checkin error
+    status=1
   fi
   CUTOFF=$(date -d "90 days ago" +%Y-%m-%d)
   rclone lsf "spaces:$BUCKET/$PREFIX/snapshots/" --dirs-only 2>/dev/null | \
@@ -49,3 +53,4 @@ fi
   done
   echo "=== $(date -Is) backup done"
 } >> "$LOG" 2>&1
+exit $status