Pm2: Starting pm2 with elevated privileges

[chaos-git]

Related to: https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/456

How do I get pm2 to load on startup with elevated privileges? I'm trying to have it bind an app to port 80 but it fails unless I do pm2 kill && sudo pm2 start app.js.

Thanks

[soyuka]

sudo pm2 start server.js

is indeed the solution to start on a port < 1000. Only root can bind to those ports so it's making sense to me.
Don't see the issue there.

[rlidwka]

If you really don't like pm2 executed as root, you can look for workarounds here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-for-non-root-processes-to-bind-to-privileged-ports-1024-on-l

[chaos-git]

I don't mind pm2 running as root, but even though I have it starting up in init.d (as root), pm2 ends up running without priviledges. For this reason it won't bind to port 80. The solution is that every time I boot the OS I need to run "pm2 kill; sudo pm2 start app.js".

I hope that makes sense.