How do I host node.js apps with pm2 without running them as root?
- by jishi
I have setup pm2 to run a node.js application, and I can successfully start it and it will resurrect upon reboot.
However, the pm2 daemon is ran as root, which makes me think that all my node-scripts also runs as root? Even though I added them as a regular user in the system. The log files and stuff is created in the users home dir, /~/.pm2/logs, but the logs are owned by root.
when I invoke pm2 startup (which handles the installation of the init.d script etc), it creates /etc/init.d/pm2-init.sh which looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 98 02
#
# description: PM2 next gen process manager for Node.js
# processname: pm2
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: pm2
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: PM2 init script
# Description: PM2 is the next gen process manager for Node.js
### END INIT INFO
NAME=pm2
PM2=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2
NODE=/usr/local/bin/node
export HOME="/root"
start() {
echo "Starting $NAME"
$NODE $PM2 stopAll
$NODE $PM2 resurrect
}
stop() {
$NODE $PM2 dump
$NODE $PM2 stopAll
}
restart() {
echo "Restarting $NAME"
stop
start
}
status() {
echo "Status for $NAME:"
$NODE $PM2 list
RETVAL=$?
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
status)
status
;;
restart)
restart
;;
*)
echo "Usage: {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
When I dump the processes (which is what it will use when resurrecting the processes), I see mentions of user "USER":"pi" but I don't think that it's actually run as user pi.
Any thoughts?
