Working with "sudo"?

[TooTallNate]

How can I get my node installs to work with the "sudo" command?

nrajlich@stan:~$ node
Type '.help' for options.
node> .exit
nrajlich@stan:~$ sudo node
sudo: node: command not found

Thanks in advance!

[creationix]

It's not so easy actually since nvm works with your local environment, and sudo is a different environment.

One solution is to manually symlink everything in the your current active bin folder from /usr/local. Another solution is to add your nvm bin dir to root's $PATH.

[TooTallNate]

I went with the symlink. Lame but works for now, until I start using spark and don't have to use sudo anymore.

[creationix]

I'm working on a better solution. Did you see my article about my deployment setup?

http://howtonode.org/deploying-node-with-spark

The secret there is to set the $PATH in the upstart script so that it can find spark.