I'm new to PM2 and ubuntu-related issues.

I'm running an app using sudo with the syntax sudo pm2 start app.js --time.

However, when I tried to check the files in $HOME/.pm2/logs/app-error.log, I couldn't find any logs related to what I logged in the code. I believe sudo pm2 start is different from pm2 start, and the log files are only for the pm2 start.

My question is, how can I check the logs in sudo pm2?

CodePudding user response：

If you execute pm2 as the root user, the logs will be stored in /root/.pm2/logs/.

sudo executes commands as the root user, and that also entails that the home directory (referred to as $HOME or ~) that the command sees is the root user's home directory, which usually is /root.

So, if a program writes logs to the user's home directory, the location of the log files will depend on what user is executing that program.

CodePudding user response：

By default, pm2 will store log files in ~/.pm2/logs.