init - file

what OS do you have and do you have forever installed?

Yes - forever is installed.

Linux  4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 26 19:39:52 UTC 2016 x86_64

It is my co-admin doing the technical stuff on the server. Hope this is was you're looking for,.

yeah, different versions of the same distro can use different init systems. most of them use systemd now days. there are still a few hold outs on using sysV and some might still being usings ubuntu's upstart.

I'll get a guide written up for how to add one for systemd and your tech guy can get it configured and running :).

i'm not ignoring you, i swear, i just forgot about this  its on the agenda today, hope i can get to it  

My technic-admin is abroad I think, so I can't complete my babble installation anyway. Appreciate your work here and there. I'll buy you a beer when finished  (norwegian beer are expensive)

Did you have time to look at this init-file?

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/babble.service

create the file, it will open, put this as the content:

[Unit]
Description=Babble Server

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /path/to/babble/node/folder/babble.js
Restart=always
RestartSec=5                        # Restart service after 5 seconds if node service crashes
StandardOutput=syslog               # Output to syslog
StandardError=syslog                # Output to syslog
SyslogIdentifier=babble.js-server
#User=<alternate user>
#Group=<alternate group>
Environment=NODE_ENV=production PORT=3000

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

note: if you didn't symlink nodejs to node in /usr/bin, ExecStart would be:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/nodejs /path/to/babble/node/folder/babble.js

ctrl+o (saves it), ctrl+x will exit it. (this is if you use nano, use whatever cli editor you want).

next enable:

sudo systemctl enable babble.service

start:

systemctl start babble.service

verify it:

systemctl status babble.service

this is for systemd (which i believe was adopted for ubuntu server 14.10, but it is def in 16.04 lts).