Improve the experience for Linux users by letting them run the OSX pm2 configuration, but tell them they should just run it with systemctl.

commands/devsvc.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ export const options = [
   ['--stop', `Stop the ${process.platform} OS services.`],
   ['--start', `Start the ${process.platform} OS services (the default).`],
   ['--noexit', `When used in other commands, don't call process.exit.`],
-  ['--os', 'Force the process.platform to specific one']
+  ['--os <platform>', 'Force the process.platform to specific one']
 ]
 
 const windows = (opts) => {
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ const windows = (opts) => {
   }
 }
 
-const linux = (opts) => {
-  console.error("ERROR: linux isn't supported yet. Sorry!");
-}
-
 const darwin = (opts) => {
   if(opts.stop) {
     console.log("Stopping pm2...");
@@ -35,6 +31,15 @@ const darwin = (opts) => {
   }
 }
 
+const linux = (opts) => {
+  if(opts.os === "linux") {
+    darwin(opts);
+  } else {
+    console.error("On Linux you should run redis-server using systemctl or similar.  If you really want to use pm2 to manage redis then rerun this command with: --os linux");
+    process.exit(1);
+  }
+}
+
 export const main = (opts) => {
   const platform = opts.os ? opts.os : process.platform;
 

scripts/osx.config.cjs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module.exports = {
   apps: [
   {
     name: 'redis',
-    script: '/usr/local/bin/redis-server --dir /tmp',
+    script: 'redis-server --dir /tmp',
     instances: 1,
     autorestart: false,
     watch: false,