when running npm commands, the process name is always shell

[benbot]

What's going wrong?

I am trying to run several projects with pm2 using npm scripts, but each process name is always "shell" even when explicitly set in a json config.

How could we reproduce this issue?

have a config like

{
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "api-server",
      "script": "npm",
      "args": "run start"
    },
}

and notice that the process's name is "shell" and not "api-server"

Supporting information

--- PM2 report ----------------------------------------------------------------
Date                 : Tue Oct 15 2024 11:41:29 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
===============================================================================
--- Daemon -------------------------------------------------
pm2d version         : 5.4.2
node version         : 20.17.0
node path            : /nix/store/90wa8dsnqbr9fd3kybk9ir1kf82bfrqa-pm2-5.4.2/bin/pm2
argv                 : /nix/store/w78sh036dyn14f29w8za9ni9syrmwm3q-nodejs-20.17.0/bin/node,/nix/store/90wa8dsnqbr9fd3kybk9ir1kf82bfrqa-pm2-5.4.2/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Daemon.js
argv0                : node
user                 : benbot
uid                  : 1000
gid                  : 100
uptime               : 6min
===============================================================================
--- CLI ----------------------------------------------------
local pm2            : 5.4.2
node version         : 20.17.0
node path            : /nix/store/90wa8dsnqbr9fd3kybk9ir1kf82bfrqa-pm2-5.4.2/bin/pm2
argv                 : /nix/store/w78sh036dyn14f29w8za9ni9syrmwm3q-nodejs-20.17.0/bin/node,/nix/store/90wa8dsnqbr9fd3kybk9ir1kf82bfrqa-pm2-5.4.2/lib/node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2,report
argv0                : /nix/store/w78sh036dyn14f29w8za9ni9syrmwm3q-nodejs-20.17.0/bin/node
user                 : benbot
uid                  : 1000
gid                  : 100
===============================================================================
--- System info --------------------------------------------
arch                 : x64
platform             : linux
type                 : Linux
cpus                 : AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 12-Core Processor
cpus nb              : 24
freemem              : 122684841984
totalmem             : 134159986688
home                 : /home/benbot
===============================================================================
--- PM2 list -----------------------------------------------
┌────┬──────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id │ name     │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├────┼──────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72652    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 57.4mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 1  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72653    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0.1%     │ 57.3mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 2  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72663    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 56.9mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 3  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72673    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0.1%     │ 57.4mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 4  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72693    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0.1%     │ 57.8mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 5  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72694    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0.1%     │ 57.5mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
│ 6  │ shell    │ default     │ N/A     │ fork    │ 72705    │ 5m     │ 0    │ online    │ 0.1%     │ 56.8mb   │ benbot   │ disabled │
└────┴──────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
===============================================================================
--- Daemon logs --------------------------------------------
/home/benbot/.pm2/pm2.log last 20 lines:
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: Application log path : /home/benbot/.pm2/logs
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: Worker Interval      : 30000
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: Process dump file    : /home/benbot/.pm2/dump.pm2
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: Concurrent actions   : 2
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: SIGTERM timeout      : 1600
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:34:44: PM2 log: ===============================================================================
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:0] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:1] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:0] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:1] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:2] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:2] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:3] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:3] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:4] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:4] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:5] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:5] online
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:6] starting in -fork mode-
PM2        | 2024-10-15T11:36:25: PM2 log: App [shell:6] online