How to migrate this for a newer pm2 version?

[binarykitchen]

This one config

[{
    "name":         "staging.videomail.io",
    "cwd":          "/var/www/videomail/staging/source/",
    "script":       "src/server.js",
    "error_file":   "/var/log/nodejs/videomail/staging/error.log",
    "out_file":     "/var/log/nodejs/videomail/staging/out.log",
    "instances":    "1",
    "merge_logs":   "true",
    "exec_mode":    "fork_mode",
    "port":         4442,
    "env": {
        "NODE_ENV": "staging"
    }
}]

does not go well with your latest version. Seeing these warnings here:

$  pm2 startOrRestart ./etc/pm2/staging.json && pm2 save
[PM2] [WARN] You are starting 1 processes in fork_mode without load balancing (beta). To enable it remove -x option.
[PM2] [WARN] Expect "merge_logs" to be a typeof [object Boolean], but now is [object String]

What changes are needed to migrate the above? Not very clear to me. Thanks for helping!

[Tjatse]

[{
    "name":         "staging.videomail.io",
    "cwd":          "/var/www/videomail/staging/source/",
    "script":       "src/server.js",
    "error_file":   "/var/log/nodejs/videomail/staging/error.log",
    "out_file":     "/var/log/nodejs/videomail/staging/out.log",
    "instances":    1,
    "merge_logs":   true,
    "exec_mode":    "fork_mode",
    "port":         4442,
    "env": {
        "NODE_ENV": "staging"
    }
}]

[binarykitchen]

Thanks @Tjatse but no backward compatibility when merge_logs is a string of true?

And what about the other warning [PM2] [WARN] You are starting 1 processes in fork_mode without load balancing (beta). To enable it remove -x option. ?

[Tjatse]

@binarykitchen You're welcome.

• 1. Yup, no backward compatibility. It's a breaking change ^^!
• 2. Never mind the warning, it means no necessary to specify instances when setting "exec_mode":"fork_mode".

[binarykitchen]

I see, all good now. Thanks