NGN Daemon

This utility runs background processes on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Windows

Should work on Windows XP and higher, including server editions.

On Windows, creating a NGN Daemon will create a Windows service, complete with basic system health logging to the Application event log. This requires elevated administrative permissions.

Mac & Linux

A daemon is created along with a pid file. A basic system health log (syslog) is stored in /var/logs/<daemon_name>.log. On some systems, this action may require sudo.

Usage

var daemon = require('ngn-daemon');

var name = 'My Daemon',
	app	 = '/path/to/myapp.js';

// Create and/or start a daemon.
daemon.start(name,app); 

// Restart the daemon
daemon.restart(name,app);

// Stop the daemon
daemon.stop(name);

// Remove the daemon (uninstall)
daemon.remove(name);

Please note that start and restart have two optional additional arguments:

daemon.start(name,app, <pidfile>, <callback>);

and daemon.restart(name,app, , );

To provide a callback method without a pidfile, set pidfile=null.