Running django custom management commands with supervisord

djangosupervisord

I'd like to use supervisord to run some commands for my Django project but I keep getting the following error:

supervisor.log: 

2012-05-18 17:52:15,784 INFO spawnerr: can't find command 'source'

If I remove the "source" command, the log shows the same error: can't find command 'python'.

supervisord.conf excerpt:

[program:django]
directory=/home/mf/projects/djangopj/
command=beanstalkd -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11300
command=source /home/mf/virtualenvs/env/bin/activate
command=python manage.py command1
command=python manage.py command2
user=mf
autostart=true
autorestart=true

I tried removing the directory and adding the absolute path to the commands but I kept getting the same error.

I run supervisord with the following command:

supervisord -c supervisord.conf -l supervisor.log

Best Answer

The source command is only available in bash, and the supervisor command is run by sh. I would recommend using a script to perform your commands:

/etc/supervisor/conf.d/my_app.conf

[program:my_app]
command = bash /path/to/app/init.sh
directory = /path/to/app/
user = ubuntu
autostart=true
autorestart=true

/path/to/app/init.sh

#!/bin/bash

beanstalkd -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11300
source /home/mf/virtualenvs/env/bin/activate    
python manage.py command1
python manage.py command2

The only problem is that supervisor will only have control of the script, not the command(s). If you have a situation where you want supervisor to manage and keep alive a specific process, I would recommend using exec in your bash init file, that way supervisor will have control of your process. E.g.

/path/to/app/init.sh

#!/bin/bash

exec beanstalkd -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11300

You may find this useful: http://sjsnyder.com/managing-virtualenv-apps-with-supervisor

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