Keeps restarting server all the time

[senior-php-developer]

When editing file and uploading that back through FTP, nodemon recognizes the change and keeps restarting forever
unless I explicitly do touch filename

[remy]

Can you confirm that the account you run nodemon under is the same and has the permissions as that one that you're uploading with FTP?

[senior-php-developer]

I've set permissions to file 777
it still restarts each time

On 8/22/2011 3:43 PM, remy wrote:

Can you confirm that the account you run nodemon under is the same and has the permissions as that one that you're uploading with FTP?

[MartinodF]

I'm having the same problem (node v0.6.5). Editing files remotely via SFTP (but I don't think that matters), and whenever I change the first file nodemon just keeps restarting the app. File permissions are correct.

I was able to fix it by changing nodemon to write a single character 'a' to the flag file instead of an empty string ''. Reading node's source code, this behavior seems to be correct (or maybe I don't understand how nodemon is supposed to work). fs.writeSync() contains the following line:

if (!length) return 0;

So if the write buffer length is zero, the file isn't touched at all.

Maybe you could consider using fs.utimesSync(), introduced in node v0.5.0, and falling back on exec('touch ...') if that's not available?

[remy]

@MartinodF that totally makes sense - but I'd rather not use touch to try to start thinking about adding decent windows support. I think the quickest and simplest fix is just to insert a character as you suggested. Watch this space (hopefully not too much longer - sorry!)

[remy]

I've now removed the dependancy on the .monitor file altogether in the latest release. Please could you update and test? Should be all good now (finally!)

[MartinodF]

Works perfectly! Great work, thanks

[remy]

@MartinodF Pleased to hear :)