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I have a PM2 process for my NodeJS server and it crash after few minutes. I read somewhere I need to run PM2 as root to not crash.

So I do :

debian@vps:~$ pm2 start server
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [server](ids: [ 1 ])
[PM2] [server](1) ✓
[PM2] Process successfully started
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name               │ mode     │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ memory   │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1  │ server             │ fork     │ 991  │ online    │ 0%       │ 13.8mb   │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
Current process list running is not in sync with saved list. App app differs. Type 'pm2 save' to synchronize.
debian@vps:~$ pm2 stop server
[PM2] Applying action stopProcessId on app [server](ids: [ 1 ])
[PM2] [server](1) ✓
┌────┬────────────────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name               │ mode     │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ memory   │
├────┼────────────────────┼──────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1  │ server             │ fork     │ 991  │ stopped   │ 0%       │ 0b       │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
Current process list running is not in sync with saved list. App app differs. Type 'pm2 save' to synchronize.

debian@vps:~$ sudo pm2 start server
sudo: pm2: command not found

So I can't run it as root?

GrindCode
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  • run type pm2 to get the full path to the pm2 command and use sudo /full/path/to/pm2 start server accordingly – Bodo Apr 22 '21 at 18:09
  • debian@vps:~$ type pm2 pm2 is hashed (/home/debian/.nvm/versions/node/v15.12.0/bin/pm2) And I have :

    /usr/bin/env: ‘node’: No such file or directory

     – GrindCode Apr 22 '21 at 18:19
  • If you want to do it for testing only, then check what your PATH is for the normal user, use sudo -s to start a root shell, change PATH to the same value as for the normal user, then run pm2 start server. If you want to do this as a permanent solution, you might want to install the .nvm stuff and node in a system directory instead of in a user home directory. Please find out why your NodeJS server might require to be run as root. Maybe there is a better solution. Running programs as root` should be avoided. – Bodo Apr 22 '21 at 18:47

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