Multiple services of the same script leads to an error when uninstalling one of these services

[loebi-ch]

I have a node.js socket IO server: socket-io-server.js

I installed multiple services of this script with node-windows with different names (i.e. "Socket IO Server Port 5001", "Socket IO Server Port 5002") using the same script (socket-io-server.js). That works.

If I uninstall the service "Socket IO Server Port 5002", it works actually, it's uninstalled (and the other service is still installed), but an error is thrown. Node-windows tries to delete also the log file of the other service which should not be touched...

fs.js:1080
  return binding.unlink(pathModule._makeLong(path));
                 ^

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, unlink 'C:\Projects\MyProject\SocketIO\daemon\socketioserverport5001.err.log'
    at Object.fs.unlinkSync (fs.js:1080:18)
    at rm (C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-windows\lib\daemon.js:586:22)
    at C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-windows\lib\daemon.js:605:17
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\node-windows\lib\daemon.js:604:22
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:201:7)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:194:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:899:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:342:11)

[jdziat]

You need to change the location of the daemon or use a different directory for the log file. That's where the conflict is coming from. This isn't a node-windows problem. Closing this issue.

[xeroxstar]

How do we change the directory for the log with node-windows module? The way i found to fix it is by creating a new directory with fs :

const fs       = require('fs');
const svc  = new service({
        name         : "package name",
        description  : "what ever description",
        script       : "script.js"
});
svc._directory = __dirname + "/yourdirectory/"
if (!fs.existsSync(svc._directory)){
         fs.mkdirSync(svc._directory);
}

but i was wondering if there an option to create a new dir with node-windows? Thanks

[jdziat]

This is just a wrapper for winsw so any options from one should be available from the other. Maybe some more context around your use case and a new issue?