Execute new tmux session then start nodejs script on start-up

Question

I'm hosting a discord bot on my raspberry pi and I want it to create new session on start up

I have tried with edit rc.local :

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

# Print the IP address
_IP=$(hostname -I) || true
if [ "$_IP" ]; then
  printf "My IP address is %s\n" "$_IP"
  /usr/bin/tmux new-session -d "cd /home/pi/myBot; sudo node index.js"
fi

exit 0

However it didn't work, when I check with tmux a, it said no sessions

Any help would be much appreciated!

@DmitryGrigoryev I tried it and it didn't work either, the service said it's running but the bot didn't — Doan Van Thang, Apr 22 '20 at 15:51
I assume that it doesn't recognize ether tmux nor node, I even tried with full path /usr/bin/tmux and /usr/bin/node — Doan Van Thang, Apr 22 '20 at 15:58
Please take note that using /etc/rc.local has limitations due to Compatibility with SysV. We have seen many problems here on this site using it. Following the recommendation of the developers from systemd you should avoid using it. Does the command run from the commandline successfully? Does it has any output on the console or graphical? — Ingo, Apr 23 '20 at 08:08

Execute new tmux session then start nodejs script on start-up

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