Using supervisord to Manage You Daemons

Say you have some daemons running. You''d like to restart them automatically if they fail, grab logs from them and in general manage them - supervisord will do it all for you.

One of my (super cool) clients needed also to start/stop daemons when configuration changes. The solution was to have a script that updates supervisord.conf every time we have a configuration change and then selectively start/stop on the daemons that have change (by default if your run supervisorctl update, it will restart all the daemons).

For this example, I''ll assume that the daemon processes are python -m SimpleHTTPServer and I have a list of port I''d like to listen on. This list of ports might change.

Example Usage

    $ ./updated.py 8000 8001 8002

    $ supervisorctl status

    httpd-8000                       RUNNING   pid 31768, uptime 0:00:04

    httpd-8001                       RUNNING   pid 31767, uptime 0:00:04

    httpd-8002                       RUNNING   pid 31766, uptime 0:00:04

    $ ./updated.py 8000 8004 8002 # Remove 8001, add 8004

    httpd-8001: disappeared

    httpd-8004: available

    httpd-8001: stopped

    httpd-8001: removed process group

    httpd-8004: added process group

    $ supervisorctl status

    httpd-8000                       RUNNING   pid 31768, uptime 0:00:12

    httpd-8002                       RUNNING   pid 31766, uptime 0:00:12

    httpd-8004                       RUNNING   pid 31785, uptime 0:00:02

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