I noticed this whilst debugging D11351. Basically, I was trying to start the Aphlict server but the log file didn't exist. Something like this was happening:
> ./bin/aphlict start > ./bin/aphlict status Aphlict server is running. > ps aux | grep aphlict ... php /usr/src/phabricator/bin/aphlict start # No NodeJS process running
The NodeJS aphlict server died, but the PHP process was still alive.
Oh I see, we attempt to restart it if it dies.... I'm not quite sure whether this was happening (my guess is that it would've died immediately).
Yeah, this is by design, at least in theory. Reopen if you get more evidence that it's not working or whatever?
I guess the issue here though is that there's no way for me to tell what's going on (because the log file couldn't be created). D11351 solves this for me.