Require a positive RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL (closes #140)

envDuration accepted 0s and negative values, and
RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL feeds time.NewTicker in both the retention
reaper and the archive sweeper. NewTicker panics on a non-positive
period, and both tickers are created in goroutines with no recover, so
a bad value aborted the process after startup had already logged
"Configuration loaded".

Add envPositiveDuration, mirroring envPort's wrapping of
envPositiveInt, and use it for RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL. It wraps
ErrNonPositiveValue and names the variable, the same failure shape
PORT and RECEIVER_RATE_LIMIT already have.

SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT, the only other envDuration caller, stays on
envDuration: non-positive there means idle expiry is disabled, which
is documented behaviour and guarded at both use sites.

internal/config/config.go

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	SentryDSN       string
 
 	// RetentionSweepInterval is how often the retention reaper runs.
+	// Always positive: it becomes a time.NewTicker period.
 	RetentionSweepInterval time.Duration
 
 	// SessionIdleTimeout is the sliding inactivity window after
@@ -235,6 +236,34 @@ func envDuration(
 	return d, nil
 }
 
+// envPositiveDuration returns the value of the named environment
+// variable parsed as a Go duration that must be greater than zero.
+// Returns defaultValue if not set. A set value that is unparseable or
+// non-positive is a hard error naming the key and the bad value.
+//
+// This is for durations that reach time.NewTicker, which panics on a
+// non-positive period, in a goroutine started after startup has
+// already reported success. It is deliberately not used for durations
+// where non-positive means "disabled" (SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT).
+func envPositiveDuration(
+	key string,
+	defaultValue time.Duration,
+) (time.Duration, error) {
+	d, err := envDuration(key, defaultValue)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	if d <= 0 {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%w: %s must be greater than zero, got %s",
+			ErrNonPositiveValue, key, d,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return d, nil
+}
+
 // parseCIDR parses one trusted-proxy list entry, which may be a
 // CIDR block ("10.0.0.0/8") or a bare address ("10.0.0.1", treated
 // as a single-host block).
@@ -346,7 +375,7 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	retentionSweepInterval, err := envDuration(
+	retentionSweepInterval, err := envPositiveDuration(
 		"RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL",
 		defaultRetentionSweepInterval,
 	)
@@ -354,6 +383,8 @@ func loadFromEnv() (*Config, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Non-positive is "disabled" here, not invalid, so this stays on
+	// envDuration.
 	sessionIdleTimeout, err := envDuration(
 		"SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT",
 		defaultSessionIdleTimeout,

internal/config/config_test.go

@@ -139,7 +139,11 @@ func TestRetentionSweepInterval(t *testing.T) {
 		set         bool
 		value       string
 		expectError bool
-		expected    time.Duration
+		// sentinel, when set, must be wrapped by the startup
+		// error; every error case must additionally name the
+		// variable in its message.
+		sentinel error
+		expected time.Duration
 	}{
 		{
 			name:     caseUnsetUsesDefault,
@@ -158,6 +162,24 @@ func TestRetentionSweepInterval(t *testing.T) {
 			value:       "not-a-duration",
 			expectError: true,
 		},
+		{
+			// A non-positive period panics the ticker in the
+			// reaper and archive-sweeper goroutines, long after
+			// startup has reported success, so it has to fail
+			// here instead.
+			name:        "zero fails startup",
+			set:         true,
+			value:       "0s",
+			expectError: true,
+			sentinel:    config.ErrNonPositiveValue,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "negative fails startup",
+			set:         true,
+			value:       "-1h",
+			expectError: true,
+			sentinel:    config.ErrNonPositiveValue,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {
@@ -175,7 +197,9 @@ func TestRetentionSweepInterval(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 
 			if tt.expectError {
-				expectStartupError(t)
+				expectStartupErrorFor(
+					t, "RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL", tt.sentinel,
+				)
 			} else {
 				testRetentionSweepIntervalSuccess(t, tt.expected)
 			}
@@ -281,6 +305,22 @@ func TestSessionIdleTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 			value:       "not-a-duration",
 			expectError: true,
 		},
+		{
+			// Non-positive is "idle expiry disabled" for this
+			// variable, not a configuration error: unlike
+			// RETENTION_SWEEP_INTERVAL it never becomes a ticker
+			// period.
+			name:     "zero disables idle expiry",
+			set:      true,
+			value:    "0s",
+			expected: 0,
+		},
+		{
+			name:     "negative disables idle expiry",
+			set:      true,
+			value:    "-1h",
+			expected: -time.Hour,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {