Clean up log files for failed Forever.js tasks

Question

When trying to start a process using Forever.js and it fails, the process continues to appear in the forever list output as stopped . In this screenshot, this the case with all 4 stopped processes:

What's the right way to remove those? Should I use the cleanlogs command? What if I want to preserve the log files but just remove those processes from the output of forever list ?

Answer 1

Base on my tests, it looks like this is the rule:

• If a task exit on exception, it will be marked as "STOPPED" and kept in forever list .
• You can use forever stop xxx to remove a STOPPED task from forever list .
• With forever stop xxx , the corresponding log will be cleared too. So if you want to keep the error log, move it somewhere else before forever stop xxx .