Restart on watch kills script

[lukasoppermann]

Hey,

I am having an issue: When forever tries to restart because of a file change it dies.

I am starting it like this: forever start -v --watch --watchedDirectory=/Users/lukasoppermann/code/veare -c ts-node app.ts

No error is shown after a file change, but forever list shows the process as stopped. The error log shows the following:

error: Could not read .foreverignore file.
error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/lukasoppermann/Code/veare/.foreverignore'
Running on http://localhost:8080
error: restarting script because change changed
error: Forever detected script was killed by signal: SIGKILL
error: Script restart attempt #1
Running on http://localhost:8080
Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::8080
at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1050:11)
at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1073:20)
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1259:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1307:12)
at Server.listen (net.js:1406:7)
at Function.listen (/Users/lukasoppermann/Code/veare/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:618:24)
at Object. (/Users/lukasoppermann/Code/veare/app.ts:22:5)
at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
at Module.m._compile (/Users/lukasoppermann/Code/veare/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:385:23)
at Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
error: Forever detected script exited with code: 1

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help. Please let me know if I can provide any more info to solve this.

Could this be related to #931 and the issue occurs because a process using the same PORT is still running?

Running forever start -v --watch --watchedDirectory=/Users/lukasoppermann/code/veare -c ts-node app.ts again results in a stopped process as well. Same when running restart.
However when I kill all processes manually first, I can start without a problem.

[wcoebergh]

First, you are trying to allocate a port that is taken (which has nothing to do with Forever):

Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::8080

Secondly, the argument is:

--watchDirectory

not

--watchedDirectory