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update node path - use "which node" to find this path in ubuntu
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: node-red
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the node-red server
### END INIT INFO
# Can be downloaded and installed in one go by using this command
# sudo wget -O /tmp/download https://gist.github.com/Hardware-Hacks/eecf6aff0d4ac8756c4b/download && sudo tar -zxf /tmp/download --strip-components 1 -C /etc/init.d && sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/node-red && sudo update-rc.d node-red defaults
# User that launches node-RED (it's advised to create a new user for Node-RED)
# You can do : sudo useradd node-red
# then change the USER=root by USER=node-red
# if you change the user, don't forget to also change the ownership of the log file (and create it if it doesn't exist):
# sudo chown NEWUSER /var/log/node-red.log
# else the log won't be writeable
USER=root
# The location of Node-RED
SCRIPT_DIR='/home/munkee/Programs/node-red/'
# DONT'T CHANGE unless you know what you're doing
NAME=node-red
DAEMON=/usr/bin/node
OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=128 red.js"
LOG='/var/log/node-red.log'
PIDFILE=/var/run/node-red.pid
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
start_daemon () {
start-stop-daemon --start --chdir $SCRIPT_DIR --background \
--chuid $USER --name $NAME \
$START_STOP_OPTIONS --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE \
--startas /bin/bash -- -c "exec $DAEMON $OPTIONS >> $LOG 2>&1"
log_end_msg 0
}
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting daemon" "$NAME"
start_daemon
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping daemon" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
--chuid $USER \
--chdir $SCRIPT_DIR \
--exec $DAEMON --pidfile $PIDFILE --retry 30 \
--oknodo || log_end_msg $?
log_end_msg 0
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 5
$0 start
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME"
exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
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