Container sets up its own data directory (closes #75) (#76)
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Closes #75.

`bin/entrypoint.sh`, which already runs as root, now makes the data directory usable before the backend starts: it creates `DATA_DIR` if missing, gives it and `/data` to the `netwatch` user (`chown -R`), and sets mode 750 on both, the mode the backend gives a directory it creates. The backend still runs as `netwatch`. The README "Running under upaas" section loses its first-run step that created and chowned the host directory and names only the path to mount. The Dockerfile's build-time `mkdir` and `chown` of `/data` are gone, since the entrypoint now does this on every start.

What the diff does not show:

- The host directory mounted at `/data` ends up owned by uid 1000 with mode 750, and everything under `DATA_DIR` is chowned to uid 1000 on every start.
- If the directory cannot be created or chowned, the container stops with that tool's error before either process starts.

Recorded runs with `--mount type=bind`: an empty directory owned by root (mode 755, and again mode 700), and one holding a `reports` directory and report file owned by uid 1001 with mode 700. Each time the container turned healthy, `netwatch-server` ran as `netwatch`, and a posted report was written to `DATA_DIR`; a second start on the root-owned and the uid 1001 directories did the same.

Judgement call: `/data` itself is given to `netwatch` as well as `DATA_DIR`, so the backend can reach `DATA_DIR` inside a host directory with mode 700.

Model: opus-5-5
Reviewed-on: #76
Co-authored-by: clawbot <35+clawbot@noreply.example.org>
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# Completed Steps
- 2026-09-29: the container sets up its own data directory (issue #75):
`bin/entrypoint.sh`, still as root, creates `DATA_DIR` if missing and gives it
and `/data` to the `netwatch` user with mode 750 before starting the backend
as that user, so an empty host directory owned by root, or one holding files
from another uid, works with no step on the host. It stops the start instead
when a symbolic link is on the path to `DATA_DIR`, since root would change
whatever the link points to. The `README.md` first-run step that created and
chowned the host directory is gone, and the image no longer sets that
ownership at build time
- 2026-09-29: CI can no longer pass on checks that did not run (issue #37):
`script/cibuild` is now the org model, byte for byte. It runs
`script/bootstrap` and `script/check`, then builds the image with `--no-cache`