Screen is really for having multiple terminals open with only 1 connection, and for working in a space that doesn't get destroyed if you lose your connection. It isn't designed to keep a process running in a production environment. Upstart, monit, forever, and other solutions are.
-Chad From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [nodejs] Forever with ssh I'm no sysadmin, but I've created/worked on some extremely large systems (thousands of machines) and nobody running anything in production environments would ever use screen for keeping things running. It's just not designed for that. It has horrendous potential scenarios for disaster by people pressing the wrong keys. It doesn't deal with log rotation or storage or timestamping. It doesn't deal with restarting failed processes. It's designed for interactive use. It's in no way designed as a secure keep-alive system for daemons. Compare that to: http://smarden.org/runit/benefits.html I think if you hired a sysadmin (at least one worth what you pay him) he would replace your "screen" based system in a flash. On the other hand, I do use screen for everything else, and have it constantly logged in doing "tail -F" on all my logs, so I can instantly see what's going on in real time and pause and scroll back those logs if I need to. I just don't use it for keeping daemons running. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Jimb Esser <[email protected]> wrote: Is there a problem with running in "screen"? I've very little actual Linux experience, but we've been very happy with running ours in "screen", lets us trivially get both the aspects of a daemon, automatic logging all output to one stream, and be able to connect to it interactively when things need to be debugged. In general, we still need something like runit to actually launch the screen'd node process, and re-launch it if it fails, but I don't see why running in a screen would be bad (but am by no means an expert =). On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:33:02 AM UTC-7, Matt Sergeant wrote: It does bother me a bit that people are running their node daemons in "screen". Can I at least presume this isn't for production? I highly recommend using runit - it restarts on failure and is very simple to install and use, and handles logging (including timestamping and log rotation), privilege dropping, and environment variable setting. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote: +2 for screen. I also run my node.js daemon in a "screen". On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Julian Lannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for screen > > some links: > http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-screen-tutorial-and-how-to/ > http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html > > Julian Lannigan > > > > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, rhasson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> use "screen" >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:24:40 AM UTC-4, Chad Engler wrote: >>> >>> Just use: >>> >>> > forever start <script> >>> >>> And see what is running: >>> >>> > forever list >>> >>> And stop a script: >>> >>> > forever stop <index_or_script_name> >>> >>> -Chad >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of William Myers >>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:53 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [nodejs] Forever with ssh >>> >>> Is that a way to run forever in an ssh connection so that it continues >>> to run even after the connection has been severed? >>> >>> Currently, I have only had success with $ nohup node app.js however I >>> would like to use forever and thought that it could be used like a >>> daemon tool to keep a process going. >>> >>> -- >>> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >>> Posting guidelines: >>> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "nodejs" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To >>> unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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