install pm2 for all user.

[alicera]

how to install pm2 for all user.

There are two user "dev and gen"

how to install pm2 with user dev? and the user gen can direct use pm2

[johandalabacka]

I solved it by installing pm2 and then make an alias which runs it as one user

alias pm2='sudo -u node /usr/bin/pm2'

which i put in an shell configuration file everybody read for example /etc/profile.d/pm2.sh

[alicera]

how do you installing pm2?

In fact, I want to let all user use "one pm2" So, the process that pm2 list should be the same process.

[johandalabacka]

I install it with sudo rpm -g i pm2 so it gets globally installed. I then have one account node who nobody uses directly it is only used to run pm2. The alias I mentioned above runs pm2 as the user node (-u node). So writing pm2 list is really sudo -u node /usr/bin/pm2 list You don't have to name the account node. It could be anything.

[alicera]

Hi @johandalabacka Thanks for your reply

I use this to install pm2 It will generate /home/"$USER"/.pm2 Where is the rpm generate

npm install -g pm2

by the way, I use npn install pm2 and the nvm is install on /home/"$USER"/.nvm Does it cause the the pm2 install on /home/"$USER"/.nvm/*//pm2 ?

[johandalabacka]

Hi. Is this on a production server? maybe you shouldn't use nvm or at least read up on using nvm in a multiuser enviroment. We install node as a package on our server so all globally installed packages are put in the same folder and not in someones library.

[alicera]

I just follow the step https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-install-and-set-up-pm2-on-linux-servers/ to install nvm and pm2. Then they are put in someones library.

Do you have the the script to install node ? I appreciate your help very much.

We install node as a package on our server so all globally installed packages are put in the same folder

[itsvinayak]

hi @alicera, for installing node, i would also suggest nvm,

installing nvm

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.2/install.sh | bash exit and start the terminal again

install lts version of the node

nvm install --lts

using node's latest version

nvm use lts/*

installing pm2

npm i -g pm2

getting pm2 path

which pm2

using command suggested by @johandalabacka

alias pm2='sudo -u node /usr/bin/pm2'

in place of /usr/bin/pm2 put the path you get using which command

thanks

[IhorReactNative]

Using the root user, install the PM2 library globally. Create the necessary users and execute this command.

n=$(which pm2);n=${n%/bin/pm2}; chmod -R 755 $n/bin/*; sudo cp -r $n/{bin,lib,share} /usr/local