Trouble installing crossmon-server on Mac

Question

Is there anyone here ever tried Crossmon-server? I've been searching Google to find any hint as to what I may be missing in the installation process but been unsuccessful. The basic steps are described here: https://npmjs.org/package/crossmon-server.

I'm installing it in OS X Mavericks with the latest Node version v0.10.24. After running

richard:~ root# npm install crossmon-server and do a richard:~ root# which crossmon-server

I still get nothing.... crossmon-server returns -sh: crossmon-server: command not found

UPDATED:

Installing globally with -g results into this error Please try running this command again as root/Administrator. So, I did both sudo npm install crossmon-server -g and sudo su - and re-ran the install command but still got this same error message:

> [email protected] preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/crossmon-server
> npm i -g forever

npm ERR! Error: EACCES, open '/Users/rbm/.npm/28ef027b-forever.lock'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, open '/Users/rbm/.npm/28ef027b-forever.lock']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/Users/rbm/.npm/28ef027b-forever.lock' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.2
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "-g" "forever"
npm ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/crossmon-server
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! path /Users/rbm/.npm/28ef027b-forever.lock
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, open '/Users/rbm/.npm/28ef027b-forever.lock'
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /usr/local/lib/node_modules/crossmon-server/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
npm ERR! [email protected] preinstall: `npm i -g forever`
npm ERR! Exit status 3
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the crossmon-server package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     npm i -g forever
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls crossmon-server
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.2
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "crossmon-server" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/rbm/workspace/prototype-int/monitoring-service
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.24
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/rbm/workspace/prototype-int/monitoring-service/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I'd appreciate any help from anyone who have already tried this tool.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you want to use crossmon-server from the command line, you have to install it globally:

npm install crossmon-server -g

Answer 2

How I got this resolved is by cleaning up my environment by uninstalling my node, removed my entire .node_modules and removed all executable shortcuts of those packages inside.node_modules. I clean install my node using Homebrew and just installed grunt/mocha globally and all the rest just npm install <package or module name> - crossmon-server is installed locally within my proto-type project.

Hope this helps.