ndt

ndt is a Daemon Tools wrapper for NodeJS that will create, remove, and upgrade the daemon tools folder structure. Where <action> is from the list below.

Usage

Basic app usage

$ sudo su -
$ npm -g install ndt
$ cd /opt/myapp
$ ndt install
$ ndt <action>
$ ndt remove

Database Support

ndt Also supports saving instances to a local database so commands can be ran from anywhere. Also allows use of macros. Where <action> is from the list below.

$ cd /opt/myapp
$ ndt save
$ cd /
$ ndt myapp <action>
$ ndt unsave myapp

Macros

These functions affect all members of the database. Where <action> is from the list of actions below.

$ ndt all <action>

Actions

The following actions are available when using ndt commands that support <action>

• alarm - Send instance an alarm
• continue - Continue a paused instance
• exit - Have supervise exit after instance ends (not for production)
• hangup - Tell an instance to hangup
• interrupt - Send instance an interrupt
• kill - Kill an instance
• once - Run an instance once and dont restart if it dies
• pause - Pause an instance
• restart - Restart an instance
• start - Start an instance
• status - Get instance status
• stop - Stop an instance

dt.json

In order for an application to work with ndt.

{
  "name": "myapp"
  "cwd": "/opt/myapp",
  "user": "node",
  "command": "node app -vv"
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV": "production",
    "DEBUG": "*"
  },
  "log": {
    "user": "node",
    "command": "multilog s16777215 t /var/log/node/myapp"
  }
}

Generating the dt.json

It is possible to generate the dt.json file in order to make the setup process a bit less cumbersome.

In order to properly populate the environment variables. We recommend piping them through stdin.

EG:

$ su - node
$ cd /opt/myapp
$ env | ndt generate --command "node app -vv" --stdin

Debugging

This package is built using the https://www.npmjs.org/package/debug package.

Use the following to see debug output

$ cd /opt/myapp
$ DEBUG=ndt* ndt install

Changelog

1.0.6

• Fix main field

1.0.5

• Latest dependencies
• Update package json

1.0.4

• Update to latest commander
• Fix to default listing

1.0.3

• Fix handling of default command due to a change in commander

1.0.2

• Fix included daemontools template to use setuidgid instead of envuidgid

1.0.1

• Fix update with ndt status not listing status and producing errors
• Fix issue with list command not being called with no arguments

1.0.0

• Update dependencies
• Add support for latest Node.js versions
• Drop support for Node.js < 4.x
• Bump to 1.0.0 for a stable perpetual release marking 2 years with ndt in production.

0.3.0

• Major refactor of the internal code
• Added macro actions such as ndt all stop
• Database is now stored globally in /etc/ndt/ndt.json
• Confirmation of all commands working

0.2.0

• Completion of features and testing
• Restart now waits for process exit
• Removal now waits for process exit
• Database support

0.1.0

• Initial release