Process.chdir() on Centos 7

[riccardopirani]

• Node.js Version: v8.11.3
• OS Centos 7
• Scope runtime with cron:

Hello then I state that something very strange happens to me, which had never happened to me. So I have a node.js application that runs perfectly on a centos server! Once the application has been loaded on the server, boot with node server.js and everything is working on perfection! As a reboot I set a cron to start the server node with this syntax: @reboot node /var/www/html/app/main.js, the problem is that when I restart the machine the cron starts correctly node.js but when I have to do the change of directory below I have this error:

Node.js Code:

process.chdir('./Model');

Directory Tree:

/var/www/html/app

/var/www/html/app/main.js

/var/www/html/app/Model

[addaleax]

Can you show the error message? Does it help when you change process.chdir('./Model') to process.chdir(__dirname + '/Model')?

[riccardopirani]

This is error message: ENOENT: no such file or directory, uv_chdir

[addaleax]

Okay, can you add console.log(process.cwd()) before and/or try the other suggestion above?

[riccardopirani]

@addaleax I tried printing me this: /var/www/html/app. I tried your suggestion from before but I always have the same error!

[addaleax]

What does ls -l /var/www/html/app/Model print on the command line? Maybe the directory doesn’t actually exist?

[riccardopirani]

this is print of directory:

totale 204
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4902 25 giu 16.44 ArticoloModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6199 25 giu 16.44 CantiereModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   909 25 giu 16.44 ClienteModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26313 25 giu 17.03 firmacliente.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3467 25 giu 16.44 KilometriModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52834 25 giu 16.44 logo.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7318 25 giu 16.44 RapportiniModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75795 25 giu 17.03 rapportino.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1427 25 giu 16.44 report.rb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4626 25 giu 16.44 RisorseModel.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   845 25 giu 16.44 UserModel.js

[riccardopirani]

@addaleax i have fix with change cron into: @reboot cd /var/www/html/app/ && node main.js , Thanks for your help