Automatically Running Supervisord on Startup
June 24, 2010 | pro tip | 3 comments
I really like supervisord for long-running process management. It is Python, so it is easy to install and it is easy to script with tools like Fabric. Lately I’ve been deploying smaller Django/WSGI sites with Green Unicorn behind Nginx proxied over a Unix socket which makes for a nice little setup on shared hosting and RAM starved VPSes.
After installing supervisord with something like sudo easy_install supervisor, you’ll want to make sure it runs after you reboot your machine (and gets restarted in case it crashes). If you are on a Linux system with upstart (and have root access), you can bypass the ugly init scripts and use this simple file placed in /etc/init/supervisord.conf to manage your supervisord process:
description "supervisord" start on runlevel [2345] stop on runlevel [!2345] respawn exec /usr/local/bin/supervisord --nodaemon --configuration /etc/supervisord.conf
Now that it is ...
