Process Managers
Optionally use a process manager to keep the process running in the background (make sure you manually run it after setting up to resolve any issues before doing this):
- systemd
- Whatever other process manager you want
Be wary of your process manager(s) doing infinite restarts. This may lead to you being blocked or banned by Discord.
- 1.
npm install -g pm2ornpm install -g foreverin terminal.- add
sudobefore npm if you have permission issues.
- 2.
cd MonitoRSSassuming your folder is named MonitoRSS - 3.
pm2 start bot.jsorforever start bot.js
- 1.Use
pm2 listorforever listto show the process ID. - 2.
pm2 logs processIDorforever logs processID -f- you'll now be shown a short recent history of the bot logs, and any further
- 1.Use
pm2 show processID/forever listto show theout log path/logfilelocation. - 2.
cat /my/location/<log name>.log. This is not realtime tracking.
- 1.
pm2 flush/forever cleanlogs
- 1.
pm2 stop processID/forever stop processID
- 1.
pm2 restart processID/forever restart processID
- 1.Create unit file in
/etc/systemd/system/discord-rss.servicewith contents
[Unit]
Description=Discord RSS bot
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/discord-rss/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /opt/discord-rss/server.js
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=discord-rss
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- 1.Reload systemd to take new configuration
sudo systemctl daemon-reload - 2.Start it with
sudo systemctl start discord-rss - 3.Enable autostart with
sudo systemctl enable discord-rss - 4.Logs can be checked with
sudo journalctl -fu discord-rss