forever -p /var/run/forever is ignored

Question

I'm trying to use the -p option to define where pid files are kept when starting forever with sudo. However, the pid files always show up in /home/user/.forever instead of /var/run/forever

edit: fyi I've switched to nodemon in dev and pm2 in production.

Answer 1

My workaround was using the environment variable since -p didn't work for me either in my init.d script.

export FOREVER_ROOT=/var/run/forever

Hope this help you a bit until they release a version with a fix.

Was kinda mind puzzling since I tried to run forever with a forever system user without a home directory.