Setup Notes

Memo to setup PM2 to run the notification server

1. Create user PM2 and set his password

sudo useradd -d /opt/pm2 -m -s /bin/bash pm2`
sudo passwd pm2

2. Add users you want to provide the access to PM2 to PM2 group

sudo usermod -aG pm2 <username>

3. Set the PM2_HOME variable

sudo touch /etc/profile.d/pm2.sh
sudo sh -c 'echo "export PM2_HOME=\"/opt/pm2/.pm2\"" > /etc/profile.d/pm2.sh'
source /etc/profile.d/pm2.sh

4. Install the PM2

sudo npm install pm2 -g

5. Make startup script

sudo pm2 startup ubuntu -u pm2 --hp /opt/pm2

sudo systemctl enable pm2-pm2 && \
sudo systemctl start pm2-pm2 && \
sudo systemctl status pm2-pm2

6. Change permission of PM2_HOME

sudo chmod -v g+w /opt/pm2/.pm2

7. Check the PM2

pm2 status