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Alex G.P.
Alex G.P.

Reputation: 10028

Start daemon as one step

My workflow for testing require starting 2 NodeJS apps (tests starting later and send REST requests to started daemons). But obviously step that running node server.js is never ending (of course until server app stopped).

I tried to start is as command='nohup node server.js &' but it doesn't works - still waits for step finishing.

How could I start daemon as one of testing step?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Alex G.P.
Alex G.P.

Reputation: 10028

Well, finally I sorted it. I don't know why but if command in ShellCommand doesn't returned to prompt (like when using & at the end of command) it treated like "not finished and killed by timeout. So I cannot just start daemon like nohup node ./server.js &.

But it can be worked around if this command placed in shell script. I created runner that using to start daemons and it works.

#!/bin/bash

CMD="$1 $2 $3 $4"
[ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo "Usage: $0 [FILE_1] [FILE_2] [FILE_3]"; exit 1; }
eval "${CMD}" &>/dev/null &!;

Usage: /usr/local/bin/runner /node-v8.x-linux-x64/bin/node server.js

Upvotes: 1

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