cannot find node binary on reboot about node-supervisor HOT 6 CLOSED

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the problem. What command is your script trying to run? Was your script working previously until you upgraded supervisor or changed something else?

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I was running supervisor from a startup script in /etc/init.d and it complained that supervisor not find node
This is the startup script I was using at default runlevel (for starting node when debian system reboots):
https://github.com/chovy/node-startup/blob/master/init.d/node-app

Just replace node with supervisor
EXEC=/usr/local/bin/supervisor

It did not have a problem when I run it manually, only when the system rebooted did I get the error in my log.
My guess is it tried to run before a shell was available, but I'm not sure.

edit: actually, I think it had a shell, the startup script is a bash script, but node probably isn't in the path. The way you're getting node:

/usr/sbin/env | node

This was the problem.

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Ok, I see. Is there any other way that would work better? We can't just hardcode the path to node in there.

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hardcoding it would probably fix the issue. But then anyone who is not using standard /usr/local/bin/node path it will break for. Maybe there's a way to to both. /usr/local/bin/node || /usr/sbin/env | node

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Right, just like with other languages, it's not safe to assume that the node binary is in any one place.

Your best bet is probably arranging to have node in your path by the time your script runs. If that's not an option, I'd recommend forking this repository and maintaining a modified version that works for you. npm plays nice with GitHub - you can install directly from a repository like this: npm install -g https://github.com/isaacs/node-supervisor/tarball/master.

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I think this will fix it adding this to the system boot script:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

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