Seems broken in node v0.4.0

[eliaskg]

Tested in on Mac OSX Snow Leopard and Ubuntu Maverick

If I am running on node v0.4.0 and I say

$ forever start server.js

nothing gets started, so if I run

$ forever list

I get

> No forever processes running

[indexzero]

Thanks. Are you installing from npm@latest or are you cloning the repository and trying it?

I was noticing some issues with daemon.node (one of the libraries I maintain that forever depends on) in nodejs 0.4.0. I will investigate today / tomorrow and get back to you.

[eliaskg]

I installed it on a fresh machine via
npm install forever

[indexzero]

Hmm... try this:

  npm install daemon@0.2.0
  cd /path/to/src
  git clone git@github.com:indexzero/forever.git
  cd forever
  npm install .

Let me know if that's any different for you. The above script will install daemon.node 0.2.0 and forever@HEAD.

Sometimes it's useful to check the logs so before you run forever try this:

  forever cleanlogs
  forever start myapp.js
  ls /tmp/forever
  # Send me the dump of these log files

[eliaskg]

Will try installing daemon and forever from source later.

I took a look in the logfile after cleaning the logs and starting again. It's completely empty.

[eliaskg]

Allright, I followed your steps. When I start forever I get this now:

/Downloads$ forever start testserver.js

/home/elias/local/node/lib/node/.npm/forever/0.3.1/package/lib/forever.js:80
  daemon.daemonize(options.logFile, options.pidFile, function (err, pid) {
         ^
TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'daemonize'
    at Object.startDaemon (/home/elias/local/node/lib/node/.npm/forever/0.3.1/package/lib/forever.js:80:10)
    at /home/elias/local/node/lib/node/.npm/forever/0.3.1/package/bin/forever:125:42
    at /home/elias/local/node/lib/node/.npm/forever/0.3.1/package/bin/forever:114:5
    at /home/elias/local/node/lib/node/.npm/forever/0.3.1/package/lib/forever.js:54:7

[indexzero]

Pushed daemon.node 0.3.0 and forever 0.3.5. Tested it and seems to be working with node >= 0.4.0

[eliaskg]

Works like a charm, awesome!