systemd service: "ExecStart" node command/path

hermann-san

Hi there,
I've found a small thing in this systemd example file
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/cryptpad/cryptpad/server.js
it says "node", but it should be "node server" , else it won't work.
it should probably be corrected.
thx

AlexQ

@hermann-san
Interesting. Did it just simply not start or did you get any error messages?

Why I wonder:

The example file gives the correct working directory (line 11). And if one does try it manually via shell, it seems to work:

cryptpad@server:~$ cd /home/cryptpad/cryptpad
cryptpad@server:~/cryptpad$ /usr/bin/node /home/s_crypt/cryptpad/server.js

Upon this the server starts, so no output, but I can load the cryptpad web page without problems.

I have not tried it by defining the service and actually starting the service. So sorry, if I'm wrong, but I'm interestend and curious.

hermann-san

AlexQ
found it.
I've installed node.js with asdf in the wrong directory. The below line worked for me with node only. I don't know why I've ended up havening node not in /user/bin/
ExecStart=/home/cryptpad/.asdf/shims/node /opt/cryptpad/server.js

In any case, it worked. Thanks for your hints, that helped me somehow finding the solution because for some reason my previous command with node server stopped working in the meantime :-)
The documentation doesn't seem to be wrong then.

AlexQ

hermann-san Great :-)

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