Ubuntu 14.04 autostartup

geobz

Hey

I am trying to configure an autostartup for my nodebb when a reboot has been done, I've tried everything that is posted on https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4693/is-it-possible-to-auto-start-nodebb-in-the-startup-of-the-server/3

plus several other things I found online.

Anyone has any ideas on how to make this work? It doesn't seem to autostart on startup even after having the same things on sysv-rc-conf with e.g nginx that has autostartup.

Thanks

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Easiest way is to install supervisor and create a new config file in /etc/supervisor/conf.d.
Lets name ours nodebb.conf:
[program:nodebb]
command = node /PATH/TO/NODEBB/app.js
directory = /PATH/TO/NODEBB/
user = YOURUSERNAME (You can also use root, otherwise it is extremely insecure!!!)
autostart = true
autorestart = true
stdout_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/nodebb.log
stderr_logfile = /var/log/supervisor/nodebb_err.log

julian

conf.d? How cute

Here's a config with Upstart:

      start on startup
      stop on runlevel [016]
      respawn
      env HOME=/home/someuser
      script
        cd /home/someuser/nodebb
        node loader.js --no-silent --no-daemon
      end script

--no-silent and --no-daemon are required for upstart to function properly, as it relies on the process to not be daemonised. The former flag tells NodeBB to not use the log, and send everything to stdout, so upstart can catch it.

Log file by default: /var/log/upstart/nodebb.log

PitaJ

@julian I've never been able to get upstart to work

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@julian

geobz

thanks for that boys I worked it out