Using node-startup in AWS EC2 - reboot does not start the service

[funmu]

node-startup is real simple and cool. I tried to use it for setting up an app on AWS EC2 instance. Initially I had a few failures from
a) Needing to add "sudo" to all the commands including "rm pid file", "mkdir", "chown", etc. Why would this be required? ... this was required when I was running this from the bash shell directly to test out the script.
b) Even after setting this script up in /etc/init.d and setting up the chkconfig --add node-startup, I noticed that the app does not start up after a reboot automatically. What might be wrong?
c) One of the reason that at reboot the node-startup does not work is, the old pid file is still around. Hence the start command fails. How can i ensure that the node-startup app is shutdown or pid file is ignored only at the reboot and initial startup?

Thanks for your help. Again, this script is nice and simple!

[jsonpoindexter]

You can force an override / remove old pid file on every start by changing the variable FORCE_OP on line 36 from false to true .

So line 36 should look like this: FORCE_OP=true