Repair a broken unit

systemd · medium · live throwaway Linux box · 3 tiered hints

The 'reporter' service fails to start: its ExecStart points to a script that doesn't exist. The real script is /opt/reporter/run.sh. Fix the unit and start it so /run/reporter.ok appears.

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