Issue while using peerflix-server with forever in an init.d script

[zobrak]

Hi !
I was trying to launch peerflix server as a daemon with forever and I got always the same error while launching from an init.d script :

path.js:360
throw new TypeError('Arguments to path.join must be strings');
^
TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings
at path.js:360:15
at Array.filter (native)
at Object.exports.join (path.js:358:36)
at Object. (/usr/lib/node_modules/peerflix-server/server/store.js:11:21)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
error: Forever detected script exited with code: 8
error: Script restart attempt #4

To resolv this issue I did edit the store.js file and did this :

• homePath = '/root',

• homePath = process.env[(process.platform === 'win32') ? 'USERPROFILE' : 'HOME'],

Now it works.

[asapach]

The problem seems to be that the HOME environment variable is not set for the user you are running the script under. Can you try setting it explicitly?

[zobrak]

In fact the HOME is set :
printenv | grep HOME

HOME=/root

[asapach]

I'm using upstart on Ubuntu 14.04. Here's my config:
/etc/init/peerflix.conf

description "Peerflix daemon"
start on startup
stop on shutdown
expect fork
setuid peerflix-user
env HOME="/home/peerflix-user"

exec forever start -a -l peerflix.log /usr/local/bin/peerflix-server

pre-stop exec forever stop /usr/local/bin/peerflix-server

The init script runs under peerflix-user user and sets up $HOME variable.