How to save process state for startup hook

[hufftheweevil]

Is it possible to save the state of each process in the startup hook (pm2 save)?

I am using pm2 version 2.10.4 on Windows 10, and I am using the pm2-windows-startup module. It works great, but I have some processes that I want to be listed at startup but not running. Is this possible?

[wallet77]

Hi @hufftheweevil

No it's not currently possible.
I think it's close to #3759

If you confirm I can close this one a keep only the issue above.

[hufftheweevil]

Yes, I suppose that is a similar feature request. I would assume it means that pm2 save would need to store the status of each process in the dump file and then pm2 resurrect would need to read those statuses and act accordingly.

[wallet77]

Yes, but with an important precision, we must distinguish if :

• a process is stopped due to an error => then pm2 should try to resurrect it
• a process is stopped manually => then pm2 should keep this process as stopped