Help and report commands don't work until the daemon starts

[alexkiro]

What's going wrong?

The help and report commands don't work unless the daemon is started. This seems like an odd choice, I would suggest to have the help command work without the daemon.

How could we reproduce this issue?

$ pm2 -h
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/kiro/.pm2
$

Supporting information

# Run the following commands
$ pm2 report

Can't run this command this is part of the issue:

$ sudo pm2 report
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/root/.pm2
$

• PM2 version: 5.4.2
• Node version: 20.11.0