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Are you running an old version? Seems that it should have been fixed here
https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/pull/1911
Edit: says merged, but seems it wasn't. Ignore
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Feb 20, 2020
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Run PM2 as a daemon
I'm trying to use PM2 and make sure it's always running and restarts w/ code changes.
It looks like I need to run pm2 start /home/forge/staging.fitnessmd.fit/staging-socket.js --watch to do that, however when I set this up as a daemon I get the following error:
[PM2][Initialization] Environment variable HOME (Linux) or HOMEPATH (Windows) are not set!
[PM2][Initialization] Defaulting to /etc/.pm2
Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/etc/.pm2'
What am I doing wrong, or what is the correct way to run pm2 on Forge?
Thanks
Level 102
Try running it with --hp
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Same error unfortunately, going to try the pm2 startup command to see what it generates
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Thanks for your help @sinnbeck
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Happy to help :) mark your own answer as best
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That doesn't work, deleted it. It shows it starts up, but running pm2 list on the command does not show it running. I'm guessing it's not running it as forge, even though that's what I said when creating the daemon.
Level 102
Never used forge, but can you run things as sudo?
sudo -u forge pm2 start /home/forge/staging.fitnessmd.fit/staging-socket.js - - watch
Level 102
Out of curiosity. Do you know what user is running the commands? Is it the forge user?
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It should be forge. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to ensure this restarts at server reboot. I have a ticket into Forge we'll see what they say.
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Got the same problem (same error about permissions in /etc/.pm2 and missing $HOME) when I am trying to follow https://blog.laravel.com/deploying-soketi-to-laravel-forge to install soketi.
Did you get an answer to your ticket, @edalzell ?
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@ahoi I switched to plain ol' node and a daemon.
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