Stoppping a process with a path. about forever

[wavded]

I see that documentation supports this on the home page, but it hasn't worked for me. Here's the code I run.

ssh user@server forever stop /path/to/app.js
rsync app.js user@server:/path/to/app.js
ssh user@server forever start /path/to/app.js

Start always works, but stop just tells me it can't find a process at that index so I end up getting multiple processes started each time run, but none stopped.

[indexzero]

That's a error in the documentation. Forever is not designed to work with script names because it is impossible to disambiguate the following behavior:

$ forever start myapp.js
$ forever start myapp.js
$ forever stop myapp.js

Sometimes you may want to start multiple instances of a script running concurrently, and I haven't thought up a good way to handle that scenario which is why I chose indexes.

I will take this under consideration though. Thanks

[outbounder]

Hi there, I've stumbled upon the same problem so made a quick 'workaround', which you can review at any time: ActiveUnits@869b824

I can create a pull request if you need that, however the change is rather trivial (+ needs refractoring anyway).

Best regards and even bigger kudos for the well done job with forever,
Boris

[indexzero]

Fixed in 14c7aa8 ... @outbounder went a different way for the implementation so it wasn't limited to bin/forever usage. Thanks for the suggestion.

[indexzero]

Oh, and the expected behavior is that calling 'forever stop myapp.js' will stop ALL instances of myapp.js running via forever so be aware.

[wavded]

Perfect, thanks you guys! I think this will helpful.