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Vitor
Vitor

Reputation: 191

nodejs active on boot with nvm $HOME/nvm/nvm.sh

I installed node with nvm it works fine, but every new session i need to do source $HOME/nvm/nvm.sh to get node active

How can I do to be active on boot so there is no need to type source $HOME/nvm/nvm.sh in every sssh session

I try to add this command source $HOME/nvm/nvm.sh to /etc/rc.local but I get the following error 

>  /etc/init.d/node_start.sh: 13: root/nvm/nvm.sh: Bad substitution
>     /etc/init.d/node_start.sh: 78: root/nvm/nvm.sh: [[: not found
>     /etc/init.d/node_start.sh: 78: root/nvm/nvm.sh: [[: not found
>     /etc/init.d/node_start.sh: 129: root/nvm/nvm.sh: [[: not found
>     /etc/rc.local: 14: /etc/rc.local: source: not found

But if i done that command on shell works normally

Any help is welcome

Regards

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1763

Answers (3)

gmartini20
gmartini20

Reputation: 361

You should add the line below to the end of ~/.bashrc file:

[[ -s /home/$USER/.nvm/nvm.sh ]] && . /home/$USER/.nvm/nvm.sh

Upvotes: 1

dty
dty

Reputation: 18998

I expect your init script starts with #!/bin/sh when it needs to start with #!/bin/bash. Of course, there may be many good reasons not to write init scripts in Bash...

Upvotes: 0

Peter Lyons
Peter Lyons

Reputation: 146154

The init script is running as root, not your user. If you want to source your own nvm.sh, you shouldn't use $HOME, but rather just use the absolute path like /home/vitor/nvm/nvm.sh. Also the init script is probably running under dash so you should not use the [[ construct. Just use [ instead as described in this dash as /bin/sh article

So I went and read the nvm.sh source code from https://github.com/creationix/nvm/blob/master/nvm.sh

I don't think that is compatible with dash. So I suggest you leave nvm.sh elsewhere in the filesystem and in your init script just do

exec /bin/bash /root/nvm/nvm.sh

Starting node_start.sh with #!/bin/bash may also be sufficient.

You may also want to subscribe to issue 168 on github for nvm where others hit this error.

Upvotes: 0

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