Autostarting loader.js

efkay

Hi,

I'm usually starting my nodebb forum by switching into the nodebb dir and then do:

sudo node ./loader start

works, but doesn't start when the system is rebooting. I tried to add the command to to a scriptfile and exec it in /etc/xdg/autostart/ But then I found out that using the whole path of loader.js doesn't work. so ie:

sudo node /var/www/mynodebb/loader start doesn't work but changing into the mynodebb dir and type

sudo node ./loader start

works... Can somebody explain me what I'm doing wrong?

thanks & regards
Flo

Moritz Friedrich

Had the same problem. What keeps you from just using
cd /var/www/mynodebb/ && sudo ./nodebb start?

efkay

The fact that I'm too f00lish to know that I can use a command chain by && ^^ will try

julian

Just some thoughts: NodeBB does not need root permissions to run, unless you are listening directly on a port lower than 1024.

Secondly, yeah, try switching current directory before running ./nodebb start

efkay

So I tried the command cd /var/www/mynodebb/ && sudo ./nodebb start and it worked manually like a charme but when I try to auto start this as a script it still fails, here is what I did (running ubuntu 14.04 lts @ ec2 instance):

sudo vi /usr/local/bin/autostart.sh

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/mynodebb && sudo ./nodebb start

sudo chmod 4755 autostart.sh
sudo vi /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
Name=VMware User Agent
# KDE bug 190522: KDE does not autostart items with NoDisplay=true...
# NoDisplay=true
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1
exec=/usr/local/bin/autostart.sh

doesn't work... but as I' reading this I might guess that it doesn't work because I don't load any "Desktop" or GUI!? I use this method because of the autostart wiki of ubuntu