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NAME

       supervisor - Supervisor Documentation

       Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number
       of processes on UNIX-like operating systems.

       It shares some of the same goals of programs like launchd, daemontools, and runit.  Unlike
       some  of these programs, it is not meant to be run as a substitute for init as "process id
       1". Instead it is meant to be used  to  control  processes  related  to  a  project  or  a
       customer, and is meant to start like any other program at boot time.

NARRATIVE DOCUMENTATION

   Introduction
   Overview
       Supervisor  is  a  client/server  system  that  allows  its  users  to control a number of
       processes on UNIX-like operating systems.  It was inspired by the following:

       Convenience
          It is often inconvenient to need  to  write  rc.d  scripts  for  every  single  process
          instance.    rc.d  scripts  are  a  great  lowest-common-denominator  form  of  process
          initialization/autostart/management, but they can be painful  to  write  and  maintain.
          Additionally,  rc.d  scripts  cannot  automatically  restart a crashed process and many
          programs do not restart themselves properly on a crash.  Supervisord  starts  processes
          as  its  subprocesses,  and can be configured to automatically restart them on a crash.
          It can also automatically be configured to start processes on its own invocation.

       Accuracy
          It's often difficult to get accurate up/down status on  processes  on  UNIX.   Pidfiles
          often  lie.   Supervisord starts processes as subprocesses, so it always knows the true
          up/down status of its children and can be queried conveniently for this data.

       Delegation
          Users who need to control process state often need only to do that.  They don't want or
          need  full-blown  shell  access  to  the  machine  on  which the processes are running.
          Processes which listen on "low" TCP ports often need to be started and restarted as the
          root user (a UNIX misfeature).  It's usually the case that it's perfectly fine to allow
          "normal" people to stop or restart such a process, but providing them with shell access
          is  often  impractical,  and  providing  them  with root access or sudo access is often
          impossible.  It's also (rightly) difficult to explain to them why this problem  exists.
          If  supervisord  is  started as root, it is possible to allow "normal" users to control
          such processes without needing to explain the  intricacies  of  the  problem  to  them.
          Supervisorctl allows a very limited form of access to the machine, essentially allowing
          users to see process status and control supervisord-controlled subprocesses by emitting
          "stop", "start", and "restart" commands from a simple shell or web UI.

       Process Groups
          Processes often need to be started and stopped in groups, sometimes even in a "priority
          order".  It's often difficult to explain to people how to do this.   Supervisor  allows
          you  to  assign  priorities  to  processes,  and  allows  user to emit commands via the
          supervisorctl client like "start all", and "restart all",  which  starts  them  in  the
          preassigned  priority  order.   Additionally,  processes  can  be grouped into "process
          groups" and a set of logically related processes can be stopped and started as a unit.

   Features
       Simple
          Supervisor is configured through a simple INI-style config file that’s easy  to  learn.
          It  provides many per-process options that make your life easier like restarting failed
          processes and automatic log rotation.

       Centralized
          Supervisor provides you with one place to start,  stop,  and  monitor  your  processes.
          Processes  can be controlled individually or in groups. You can configure Supervisor to
          provide a local or remote command line and web interface.

       Efficient
          Supervisor starts its subprocesses via fork/exec and subprocesses don’t daemonize.  The
          operating  system signals Supervisor immediately when a process terminates, unlike some
          solutions that rely on troublesome PID files and periodic  polling  to  restart  failed
          processes.

       Extensible
          Supervisor  has  a  simple  event  notification  protocol  that programs written in any
          language can use to monitor it, and an XML-RPC interface for control. It is also  built
          with extension points that can be leveraged by Python developers.

       Compatible
          Supervisor  works  on  just  about  everything  except  for  Windows.  It is tested and
          supported on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. It is written entirely  in  Python,
          so installation does not require a C compiler.

       Proven
          While  Supervisor  is very actively developed today, it is not new software. Supervisor
          has been around for years and is already in use on many servers.

   Supervisor Components
       supervisord
          The server piece of supervisor is named supervisord.  It is  responsible  for  starting
          child  programs  at its own invocation, responding to commands from clients, restarting
          crashed or exited subprocesseses, logging its subprocess stdout and stderr output,  and
          generating and handling "events" corresponding to points in subprocess lifetimes.

          The   server  process  uses  a  configuration  file.   This  is  typically  located  in
          /etc/supervisord.conf.  This configuration file is a "Windows-INI" style  config  file.
          It  is  important to keep this file secure via proper filesystem permissions because it
          may contain unencrypted usernames and passwords.

       supervisorctl
          The command-line client piece of the supervisor is named supervisorctl.  It provides  a
          shell-like  interface  to  the features provided by supervisord.  From supervisorctl, a
          user can connect to different supervisord processes, get  status  on  the  subprocesses
          controlled  by, stop and start subprocesses of, and get lists of running processes of a
          supervisord.

          The command-line client talks to the server across a UNIX domain socket or an  internet
          (TCP)  socket.   The  server  can  assert  that  the  user  of  a client should present
          authentication credentials before it  allows  him  to  perform  commands.   The  client
          process  typically uses the same configuration file as the server but any configuration
          file with a [supervisorctl] section in it will work.

       Web Server
          A (sparse) web user interface with functionality comparable  to  supervisorctl  may  be
          accessed  via a browser if you start supervisord against an internet socket.  Visit the
          server URL (e.g. http://localhost:9001/) to view and control process status through the
          web interface after activating the configuration file's [inet_http_server] section.

       XML-RPC Interface
          The same HTTP server which serves the web UI serves up an XML-RPC interface that can be
          used to interrogate and control supervisor and the programs it runs.  See xml_rpc.

   Platform Requirements
       Supervisor has been tested and  is  known  to  run  on  Linux  (Ubuntu  9.10),  Mac  OS  X
       (10.4/10.5/10.6), and Solaris (10 for Intel) and FreeBSD 6.1.  It will likely work fine on
       most UNIX systems.

       Supervisor will not run at all under any version of Windows.

       Supervisor is known to work with Python 2.4 or later but will not work under  any  version
       of Python 3.

   Running Supervisor
       This  section  makes  reference to a BINDIR when explaining how to run the supervisord and
       supervisorctl commands.  This is the "bindir" directory that your Python installation  has
       been  configured  with.   For  example,  for  an  installation  of  Python  installed  via
       ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/py; make; make install, BINDIR would be /usr/local/py/bin.
       Python  interpreters on different platforms use a different BINDIR.  Look at the output of
       setup.py install if you can't figure out where yours is.

   Adding a Program
       Before supervisord will do anything useful for you,  you'll  need  to  add  at  least  one
       program  section  to its configuration.  The program section will define a program that is
       run and managed when you invoke the supervisord command.  To add a program, you'll need to
       edit the supervisord.conf file.

       One  of  the simplest possible programs to run is the UNIX cat program.  A program section
       that will run cat when the supervisord process starts up is shown below.

          [program:foo]
          command=/bin/cat

       This stanza may be cut and pasted into the supervisord.conf file.  This  is  the  simplest
       possible  program  configuration,  because it only names a command.  Program configuration
       sections  have  many  other  configuration  options  which   aren't   shown   here.    See
       programx_section for more information.

   Running supervisord
       To  start  supervisord,  run  $BINDIR/supervisord.   The  resulting process will daemonize
       itself and detach from the terminal.  It keeps an operations log at $CWD/supervisor.log by
       default.

       You  may  start the supervisord executable in the foreground by passing the -n flag on its
       command line.  This is useful to debug startup problems.

       WARNING:
          When supervisord starts up, it will  search  for  its  configuration  file  in  default
          locations  including  the current working directory.  If you are security-conscious you
          will probably want to specify a "-c" argument after the supervisord command  specifying
          an  absolute path to a configuration file to ensure that someone doesn't trick you into
          running supervisor from within a directory that contains a rogue supervisord.conf file.
          A warning is emitted when supervisor is started as root without this -c argument.

       To  change  the  set of programs controlled by supervisord, edit the supervisord.conf file
       and kill -HUP or otherwise restart the supervisord process.  This file has several example
       program definitions.

       The  supervisord  command accepts a number of command-line options.  Each of these command
       line options overrides any equivalent value in the configuration file.

   supervisord Command-Line Options
       -c FILE, --configuration=FILE
              The path to a supervisord configuration file.

       -n, --nodaemon
              Run supervisord in the foreground.

       -h, --help
              Show supervisord command help.

       -u USER, --user=USER
              UNIX username or numeric user id.  If supervisord is  started  as  the  root  user,
              setuid to this user as soon as possible during startup.

       -m OCTAL, --umask=OCTAL
              Octal  number  (e.g. 022) representing the umask that should be used by supervisord
              after it starts.

       -d PATH, --directory=PATH
              When supervisord is run as a daemon, cd to this directory before daemonizing.

       -l FILE, --logfile=FILE
              Filename path to use as the supervisord activity log.

       -y BYTES, --logfile_maxbytes=BYTES
              Max size of the supervisord activity log file before a rotation occurs.  The  value
              is  suffix-multiplied,  e.g  "1"  is  one  byte,  "1MB"  is  1 megabyte, "1GB" is 1
              gigabyte.

       -y NUM, --logfile_backups=NUM
              Number of backup copies of the supervisord  activity  log  to  keep  around.   Each
              logfile will be of size logfile_maxbytes.

       -e LEVEL, --loglevel=LEVEL
              The  logging  level  at  which  supervisor should write to the activity log.  Valid
              levels are trace, debug, info, warn, error, and critical.

       -j FILE, --pidfile=FILE
              The filename to which supervisord should write its pid file.

       -i STRING, --identifier=STRING
              Arbitrary string identifier exposed by various client  UIs  for  this  instance  of
              supervisor.

       -q PATH, --childlogdir=PATH
              A  path to a directory (it must already exist) where supervisor will write its AUTO
              -mode child process logs.

       -k, --nocleanup
              Prevent supervisord from performing cleanup (removal of old AUTO process log files)
              at startup.

       -a NUM, --minfds=NUM
              The  minimum  number  of file descriptors that must be available to the supervisord
              process before it will start successfully.

       -t, --strip_ansi
              Strip ANSI escape sequences from all child log process.

       -v, --version
              Print the supervisord version number out to stdout and exit.

       --profile_options=LIST
              Comma-separated options list for profiling.  Causes  supervisord  to  run  under  a
              profiler,  and output results based on the options, which is a comma-separated list
              of the following: cumulative, calls, callers.  E.g. cumulative,callers.

       --minprocs=NUM
              The minimum number of OS process slots that must be available  to  the  supervisord
              process before it will start successfully.

   supervisorctl Command-Line Options
       -c, --configuration
              Configuration file path (default /etc/supervisord.conf)

       -h, --help
              Print usage message and exit

       -i, --interactive
              Start an interactive shell after executing commands

       -s,--serverurl URL
              URL on which supervisord server is listening (default "http://localhost:9001").

       -u, --username
              Username to use for authentication with server

       -p, --password
              Password to use for authentication with server

       -r, --history-file
              Keep a readline history (if readline is available)

       action [arguments]

       Actions  are commands like "tail" or "stop".  If -i is specified or no action is specified
       on the command line, a "shell" interpreting actions typed interactively is  started.   Use
       the action "help" to find out about available actions.

   Running supervisorctl
       To  start  supervisorctl,  run $BINDIR/supervisorctl.  A shell will be presented that will
       allow you to control the processes that are currently managed by supervisord.  Type "help"
       at the prompt to get information about the supported commands.

       The  supervisorctl  executable  may  be invoked with "one time" commands when invoked with
       arguments from a command line.  An example: supervisorctl  stop  all.   If  arguments  are
       present  on  the  command-line,  it will prevent the interactive shell from being invoked.
       Instead, the command will be executed and supervisorctl will exit.

       If supervisorctl is invoked in  interactive  mode  against  a  supervisord  that  requires
       authentication, you will be asked for authentication credentials.

   Signals
       The  supervisord  program  may  be  sent signals which cause it to perform certain actions
       while it's running.

       You can send any of these signals to the single supervisord process id.  This  process  id
       can be found in the file represented by the pidfile parameter in the [supervisord] section
       of the configuration file (by default it's $CWD/supervisord.pid).

   Signal Handlers
       SIGTERM
          supervisord and all its subprocesses will shut down.  This may take several seconds.

       SIGINT
          supervisord and all its subprocesses will shut down.  This may take several seconds.

       SIGQUIT
          supervisord and all its subprocesses will shut down.  This may take several seconds.

       SIGHUP
          supervisord will stop all processes, reload the configuration  from  the  first  config
          file it finds, and restart all processes.

       SIGUSR2
          supervisord will close and reopen the main activity log and all child log files.

   Runtime Security
       The developers have done their best to assure that use of a supervisord process running as
       root cannot lead to unintended privilege escalation.  But caveat  emptor.   Supervisor  is
       not  as  paranoid  as  something  like DJ Bernstein's daemontools, inasmuch as supervisord
       allows for arbitrary path specifications in its configuration file to which  data  may  be
       written.   Allowing  arbitrary  path  selections  can  create vulnerabilities from symlink
       attacks.  Be careful when  specifying  paths  in  your  configuration.   Ensure  that  the
       supervisord configuration file cannot be read from or written to by unprivileged users and
       that all files installed by the supervisor package have "sane" file permission  protection
       settings.   Additionally, ensure that your PYTHONPATH is sane and that all Python standard
       library files have adequate file permission protections.

   Running supervisord automatically on startup
       If you are using a distribution-packaged version  of  Supervisor,  it  should  already  be
       integrated into the service management infrastructure of your distribution.

       There    are    user-contributed    scripts    for    various    operating   systems   at:
       https://github.com/Supervisor/initscripts

       There are some answers at Serverfault in case you get stuck: How  to  automatically  start
       supervisord on Linux (Ubuntu)

   Configuration File
       The Supervisor configuration file is conventionally named supervisord.conf.  It is used by
       both supervisord and supervisorctl.  If either  application  is  started  without  the  -c
       option  (the  option  which  is  used  to  tell the application the configuration filename
       explicitly), the application will look  for  a  file  named  supervisord.conf  within  the
       following locations, in the specified order.  It will use the first file it finds.

       1. $CWD/supervisord.conf

       2. $CWD/etc/supervisord.conf

       3. /etc/supervisord.conf

       4. ../etc/supervisord.conf (Relative to the executable)

       5. ../supervisord.conf (Relative to the executable)

       NOTE:
          Some  distributions  have  packaged  Supervisor  with  their own customizations.  These
          modified versions of Supervisor may load the configuration file  from  locations  other
          than  those  described  here.   Notably,  Ubuntu  packages  have  been  found  that use
          /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf.

   File Format
       supervisord.conf is a Windows-INI-style (Python ConfigParser) file.  It has sections (each
       denoted  by a [header]) and key / value pairs within the sections.  The sections and their
       allowable values are described below.

   Environment Variables
       Environment variables that are present in the environment at the time that supervisord  is
       started  can  be  used in the configuration file using the Python string expression syntax
       %(ENV_X)s:

          [program:example]
          command=/usr/bin/example --loglevel=%(ENV_LOGLEVEL)s

       In the example above, the expression %(ENV_LOGLEVEL)s would be expanded to  the  value  of
       the environment variable LOGLEVEL.

       NOTE:
          In  Supervisor  3.2  and later, %(ENV_X)s expressions are supported in all options.  In
          prior versions, some options support them, but most do not.  See the documentation  for
          each option below.

   [unix_http_server] Section Settings
       The  supervisord.conf  file  contains  a  section  named  [unix_http_server]  under  which
       configuration parameters for an HTTP server that listens on a UNIX domain socket should be
       inserted.   If  the  configuration  file  has no [unix_http_server] section, a UNIX domain
       socket HTTP server will not  be  started.   The  allowable  configuration  values  are  as
       follows.

   [unix_http_server] Section Values
       file
          A  path  to  a UNIX domain socket (e.g. /tmp/supervisord.sock) on which supervisor will
          listen for HTTP/XML-RPC requests.   supervisorctl  uses  XML-RPC  to  communicate  with
          supervisord  over this port.  This option can include the value %(here)s, which expands
          to the directory in which the supervisord configuration file was found.

          Default:  None.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       chmod
          Change the UNIX permission mode bits of  the  UNIX  domain  socket  to  this  value  at
          startup.

          Default: 0700

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       chown
          Change  the  user  and  group of the socket file to this value.  May be a UNIX username
          (e.g. chrism) or a UNIX username and group separated by a colon (e.g. chrism:wheel).

          Default:  Use the username and group of the user who starts supervisord.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       username
          The username required for authentication to this HTTP server.

          Default:  No username required.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       password
          The password required for authentication to this HTTP server.  This can be a  cleartext
          password,  or  can  be  specified as a SHA-1 hash if prefixed by the string {SHA}.  For
          example, {SHA}82ab876d1387bfafe46cc1c8a2ef074eae50cb1d is the SHA-stored version of the
          password "thepassword".

          Note that hashed password must be in hex format.

          Default:  No password required.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [unix_http_server] Section Example
          [unix_http_server]
          file = /tmp/supervisor.sock
          chmod = 0777
          chown= nobody:nogroup
          username = user
          password = 123

   [inet_http_server] Section Settings
       The  supervisord.conf  file  contains  a  section  named  [inet_http_server]  under  which
       configuration parameters for an HTTP server that listens on a TCP (internet) socket should
       be  inserted.   If  the configuration file has no [inet_http_server] section, an inet HTTP
       server will not be started.  The allowable configuration values are as follows.

   [inet_http_server] Section Values
       port
          A TCP host:port value or (e.g. 127.0.0.1:9001) on  which  supervisor  will  listen  for
          HTTP/XML-RPC  requests.  supervisorctl will use XML-RPC to communicate with supervisord
          over this port.  To listen on all interfaces in the machine, use :9001 or *:9001.

          Default:  No default.

          Required:  Yes.

          Introduced: 3.0

       username
          The username required for authentication to this HTTP server.

          Default:  No username required.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       password
          The password required for authentication to this HTTP server.  This can be a  cleartext
          password,  or  can  be  specified as a SHA-1 hash if prefixed by the string {SHA}.  For
          example, {SHA}82ab876d1387bfafe46cc1c8a2ef074eae50cb1d is the SHA-stored version of the
          password "thepassword".

          Note that hashed password must be in hex format.

          Default:  No password required.

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [inet_http_server] Section Example
          [inet_http_server]
          port = 127.0.0.1:9001
          username = user
          password = 123

   [supervisord] Section Settings
       The  supervisord.conf file contains a section named [supervisord] in which global settings
       related to the supervisord process should be inserted.  These are as follows.

   [supervisord] Section Values
       logfile
          The path to the activity log of the supervisord process.  This option can  include  the
          value  %(here)s,  which expands to the directory in which the supervisord configuration
          file was found.

          Default:  $CWD/supervisord.log

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       logfile_maxbytes
          The maximum number of bytes that may be consumed by the activity log file before it  is
          rotated  (suffix  multipliers like "KB", "MB", and "GB" can be used in the value).  Set
          this value to 0 to indicate an unlimited log size.

          Default:  50MB

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       logfile_backups
          The number of backups to keep around resulting from activity log file rotation.  If set
          to 0, no backups will be kept.

          Default:  10

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       loglevel
          The  logging  level, dictating what is written to the supervisord activity log.  One of
          critical, error, warn, info, debug, trace, or blather.  Note that at log  level  debug,
          the  supervisord  log  file will record the stderr/stdout output of its child processes
          and extended info info about process state changes, which is  useful  for  debugging  a
          process which isn't starting properly.  See also: activity_log_levels.

          Default:  info

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       pidfile
          The  location  in  which  supervisord  keeps its pid file.  This option can include the
          value %(here)s, which expands to the directory in which the  supervisord  configuration
          file was found.

          Default:  $CWD/supervisord.pid

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       umask
          The umask of the supervisord process.

          Default:  022

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       nodaemon
          If true, supervisord will start in the foreground instead of daemonizing.

          Default:  false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       minfds
          The  minimum  number of file descriptors that must be available before supervisord will
          start successfully.  A call to setrlimit will be made to attempt to raise the soft  and
          hard  limits  of the supervisord process to satisfy minfds.  The hard limit may only be
          raised if supervisord is run as root.  supervisord uses file descriptors liberally, and
          will enter a failure mode when one cannot be obtained from the OS, so it's useful to be
          able to specify a minimum value to ensure it doesn't run out of them during  execution.
          This  option is particularly useful on Solaris, which has a low per-process fd limit by
          default.

          Default:  1024

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       minprocs
          The minimum number of process descriptors that must  be  available  before  supervisord
          will start successfully.  A call to setrlimit will be made to attempt to raise the soft
          and hard limits of the supervisord process to satisfy minprocs.   The  hard  limit  may
          only  be  raised  if supervisord is run as root.  supervisord will enter a failure mode
          when the OS runs out of process descriptors, so  it's  useful  to  ensure  that  enough
          process descriptors are available upon supervisord startup.

          Default:  200

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       nocleanup
          Prevent  supervisord  from  clearing any existing AUTO child log files at startup time.
          Useful for debugging.

          Default:  false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       childlogdir
          The directory used for AUTO child  log  files.   This  option  can  include  the  value
          %(here)s,  which  expands  to the directory in which the supervisord configuration file
          was found.

          Default: value of Python's tempfile.get_tempdir()

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       user
          Instruct supervisord to switch users  to  this  UNIX  user  account  before  doing  any
          meaningful  processing.  The user can only be switched if supervisord is started as the
          root user.  If supervisord can't switch users, it will still continue but will write  a
          log message at the critical level saying that it can't drop privileges.

          Default: do not switch users

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       directory
          When  supervisord  daemonizes,  switch  to this directory.  This option can include the
          value %(here)s, which expands to the directory in which the  supervisord  configuration
          file was found.

          Default: do not cd

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       strip_ansi
          Strip all ANSI escape sequences from child log files.

          Default: false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       environment
          A  list of key/value pairs in the form KEY="val",KEY2="val2" that will be placed in the
          supervisord process' environment (and  as  a  result  in  all  of  its  child  process'
          environments).   This  option  can  include  the  value  %(here)s, which expands to the
          directory in which the supervisord configuration file  was  found.   Values  containing
          non-alphanumeric  characters  should  be  quoted  (e.g.  KEY="val:123",KEY2="val,456").
          Otherwise,  quoting  the  values  is  optional  but  recommended.   To  escape  percent
          characters,  simply  use  two.  (e.g. URI="/first%%20name") Note that subprocesses will
          inherit the environment variables of the shell used to start supervisord except for the
          ones   overridden   here   and   within   the   program's   environment   option.   See
          subprocess_environment.

          Default: no values

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       identifier
          The identifier string for this supervisor process, used by the RPC interface.

          Default: supervisor

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [supervisord] Section Example
          [supervisord]
          logfile = /tmp/supervisord.log
          logfile_maxbytes = 50MB
          logfile_backups=10
          loglevel = info
          pidfile = /tmp/supervisord.pid
          nodaemon = false
          minfds = 1024
          minprocs = 200
          umask = 022
          user = chrism
          identifier = supervisor
          directory = /tmp
          nocleanup = true
          childlogdir = /tmp
          strip_ansi = false
          environment = KEY1="value1",KEY2="value2"

   [supervisorctl] Section Settings
          The configuration file may contain settings for  the  supervisorctl  interactive  shell
          program.  These options are listed below.

   [supervisorctl] Section Values
       serverurl
          The   URL   that   should   be   used   to   access   the   supervisord   server,  e.g.
          http://localhost:9001.         For        UNIX        domain        sockets,        use
          unix:///absolute/path/to/file.sock.

          Default: http://localhost:9001

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       username
          The  username to pass to the supervisord server for use in authentication.  This should
          be same as username from the supervisord server configuration  for  the  port  or  UNIX
          domain socket you're attempting to access.

          Default: No username

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       password
          The  password  to pass to the supervisord server for use in authentication. This should
          be the cleartext version of password from the supervisord server configuration for  the
          port or UNIX domain socket you're attempting to access.  This value cannot be passed as
          a SHA hash.  Unlike other passwords specified in this file,  it  must  be  provided  in
          cleartext.

          Default: No password

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       prompt
          String used as supervisorctl prompt.

          Default: supervisor

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       history_file
          A  path  to use as the readline persistent history file.  If you enable this feature by
          choosing a path, your supervisorctl commands will be kept in the file, and you can  use
          readline  (e.g.  arrow-up)  to invoke commands you performed in your last supervisorctl
          session.

          Default: No file

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0a5

   [supervisorctl] Section Example
          [supervisorctl]
          serverurl = unix:///tmp/supervisor.sock
          username = chris
          password = 123
          prompt = mysupervisor

   [program:x] Section Settings
       The configuration file must contain one or more program sections in order for  supervisord
       to  know which programs it should start and control.  The header value is composite value.
       It is the word "program", followed directly by a colon, then the program name.   A  header
       value  of  [program:foo]  describes  a  program  with the name of "foo".  The name is used
       within client applications that control the processes that are created as a result of this
       configuration.  It is an error to create a program section that does not have a name.  The
       name must not include a colon character or a bracket character.  The value of the name  is
       used as the value for the %(program_name)s string expression expansion within other values
       where specified.

       NOTE:
          A [program:x] section actually represents a "homogeneous process group"  to  supervisor
          (as  of  3.0).  The members of the group are defined by the combination of the numprocs
          and process_name  parameters  in  the  configuration.   By  default,  if  numprocs  and
          process_name  are  left  unchanged  from  their  defaults,  the  group  represented  by
          [program:x] will be named x and will have  a  single  process  named  x  in  it.   This
          provides a modicum of backwards compatibility with older supervisor releases, which did
          not treat program sections as homogeneous process group definitions.

          But for instance, if you have a [program:foo] section  with  a  numprocs  of  3  and  a
          process_name  expression  of  %(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d,  the "foo" group will
          contain three processes, named foo_00, foo_01, and foo_02.  This makes it  possible  to
          start  a  number  of  very  similar  processes using a single [program:x] section.  All
          logfile names, all environment strings, and the command of programs  can  also  contain
          similar  Python  string  expressions,  to  pass  slightly  different parameters to each
          process.

   [program:x] Section Values
       command
          The command that will be run when this program is started.  The command can  be  either
          absolute  (e.g.  /path/to/programname)  or  relative  (e.g.  programname).   If  it  is
          relative, the supervisord's environment $PATH will  be  searched  for  the  executable.
          Programs can accept arguments, e.g. /path/to/program foo bar.  The command line can use
          double quotes to group arguments with spaces in them  to  pass  to  the  program,  e.g.
          /path/to/program/name  -p "foo bar".  Note that the value of command may include Python
          string expressions, e.g. /path/to/programname --port=80%(process_num)02d  might  expand
          to  /path/to/programname  --port=8000  at  runtime.   String  expressions are evaluated
          against a dictionary  containing  the  keys  group_name,  host_node_name,  process_num,
          program_name,   here   (the   directory  of  the  supervisord  config  file),  and  all
          supervisord's environment variables prefixed with  ENV_.   Controlled  programs  should
          themselves not be daemons, as supervisord assumes it is responsible for daemonizing its
          subprocesses (see nondaemonizing_of_subprocesses).

          Default: No default.

          Required:  Yes.

          Introduced: 3.0

       process_name
          A Python string expression that is used to compose the supervisor process name for this
          process.   You  usually  don't  need  to  worry  about  setting  this unless you change
          numprocs.  The string expression  is  evaluated  against  a  dictionary  that  includes
          group_name,  host_node_name,  process_num, program_name, and here (the directory of the
          supervisord config file).

          Default: %(program_name)s

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       numprocs
          Supervisor will start as many instances of this program as  named  by  numprocs.   Note
          that  if numprocs > 1, the process_name expression must include %(process_num)s (or any
          other valid Python string expression that includes process_num) within it.

          Default: 1

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       numprocs_start
          An integer offset that is used to compute the number at which numprocs starts.

          Default: 0

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       priority
          The relative priority of the  program  in  the  start  and  shutdown  ordering.   Lower
          priorities  indicate  programs  that start first and shut down last at startup and when
          aggregate commands are used in various clients (e.g. "start all"/"stop  all").   Higher
          priorities indicate programs that start last and shut down first.

          Default: 999

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       autostart
          If true, this program will start automatically when supervisord is started.

          Default: true

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       startsecs
          The  total number of seconds which the program needs to stay running after a startup to
          consider the start successful (moving the  process  from  the  STARTING  state  to  the
          RUNNING  state).   Set  to  0 to indicate that the program needn't stay running for any
          particular amount of time.

          NOTE:
              Even if a process exits with an "expected" exit code  (see  exitcodes),  the  start
              will still be considered a failure if the process exits quicker than startsecs.

          Default: 1

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       startretries
          The  number  of  serial failure attempts that supervisord will allow when attempting to
          start the program before giving up and putting the process into an  FATAL  state.   See
          process_states for explanation of the FATAL state.

          Default: 3

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       autorestart
          Specifies  if supervisord should automatically restart a process if it exits when it is
          in the RUNNING state.  May be one of false, unexpected, or true.  If false, the process
          will  not  be  autorestarted.   If  unexpected,  the process will be restarted when the
          program exits with an exit code that is not one of the exit codes associated with  this
          process'  configuration  (see exitcodes).  If true, the process will be unconditionally
          restarted when it exits, without regard to its exit code.

          NOTE:
              autorestart controls whether supervisord will autorestart a  program  if  it  exits
              after it has successfully started up (the process is in the RUNNING state).

              supervisord  has  a different restart mechanism for when the process is starting up
              (the process is in  the  STARTING  state).   Retries  during  process  startup  are
              controlled by startsecs and startretries.

          Default: unexpected

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       exitcodes
          The  list  of  "expected"  exit  codes  for this program used with autorestart.  If the
          autorestart parameter is set to unexpected, and the process exits in any other way than
          as  a  result  of a supervisor stop request, supervisord will restart the process if it
          exits with an exit code that is not defined in this list.

          Default: 0,2

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stopsignal
          The signal used to kill the program when a stop is requested.  This can be any of TERM,
          HUP, INT, QUIT, KILL, USR1, or USR2.

          Default: TERM

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stopwaitsecs
          The  number of seconds to wait for the OS to return a SIGCHILD to supervisord after the
          program has been  sent  a  stopsignal.   If  this  number  of  seconds  elapses  before
          supervisord  receives  a SIGCHILD from the process, supervisord will attempt to kill it
          with a final SIGKILL.

          Default: 10

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stopasgroup
          If true, the flag causes supervisor to send the stop signal to the whole process  group
          and  implies  killasgroup is true.  This is useful for programs, such as Flask in debug
          mode, that do not propagate stop signals to their children, leaving them orphaned.

          Default: false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0b1

       killasgroup
          If true, when resorting to send SIGKILL to the program to terminate it send it  to  its
          whole  process  group  instead,  taking  care  of its children as well, useful e.g with
          Python programs using multiprocessing.

          Default: false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0a11

       user
          Instruct supervisord to use this UNIX user  account  as  the  account  which  runs  the
          program.   The  user  can  only be switched if supervisord is run as the root user.  If
          supervisord can't switch to the specified user, the program will not be started.

          NOTE:
              The user will be changed using setuid only.  This does not start a login shell  and
              does    not    change    environment    variables   like   USER   or   HOME.    See
              subprocess_environment for details.

          Default: Do not switch users

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       redirect_stderr
          If true, cause the process' stderr output to be sent back to supervisord on its  stdout
          file  descriptor (in UNIX shell terms, this is the equivalent of executing /the/program
          2>&1).

          NOTE:
              Do not set redirect_stderr=true in an  [eventlistener:x]  section.   Eventlisteners
              use  stdout  and  stdin  to communicate with supervisord.  If stderr is redirected,
              output from stderr will interfere with the eventlistener protocol.

          Default: false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0, replaces 2.0's log_stdout and log_stderr

       stdout_logfile
          Put process stdout output in this file (and if  redirect_stderr  is  true,  also  place
          stderr  output  in  this  file).  If stdout_logfile is unset or set to AUTO, supervisor
          will automatically choose a file location.  If this is set to  NONE,  supervisord  will
          create  no log file.  AUTO log files and their backups will be deleted when supervisord
          restarts.  The stdout_logfile value can contain Python  string  expressions  that  will
          evaluated  against  a  dictionary  that  contains  the keys group_name, host_node_name,
          process_num, program_name, and here (the directory of the supervisord config file).

          NOTE:
              It is not possible for two processes to share a single  log  file  (stdout_logfile)
              when  rotation  (stdout_logfile_maxbytes) is enabled.  This will result in the file
              being corrupted.

          Default: AUTO

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0, replaces 2.0's logfile

       stdout_logfile_maxbytes
          The maximum number of bytes that may be consumed by stdout_logfile before it is rotated
          (suffix  multipliers  like  "KB",  "MB",  and "GB" can be used in the value).  Set this
          value to 0 to indicate an unlimited log size.

          Default: 50MB

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0, replaces 2.0's logfile_maxbytes

       stdout_logfile_backups
          The number of stdout_logfile backups to keep around resulting from process  stdout  log
          file rotation.  If set to 0, no backups will be kept.

          Default: 10

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0, replaces 2.0's logfile_backups

       stdout_capture_maxbytes
          Max  number  of  bytes written to capture FIFO when process is in "stdout capture mode"
          (see capture_mode).  Should be an integer (suffix multipliers like "KB", "MB" and  "GB"
          can used in the value).  If this value is 0, process capture mode will be off.

          Default: 0

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0, replaces 2.0's logfile_backups

       stdout_events_enabled
          If  true,  PROCESS_LOG_STDOUT  events  will  be  emitted when the process writes to its
          stdout file descriptor.  The events will only be emitted if the file descriptor is  not
          in capture mode at the time the data is received (see capture_mode).

          Default: 0

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0a7

       stderr_logfile
          Put  process  stderr  output  in this file unless redirect_stderr is true.  Accepts the
          same value types as stdout_logfile and may contain the same Python string expressions.

          NOTE:
              It is not possible for two processes to share a single  log  file  (stderr_logfile)
              when  rotation  (stderr_logfile_maxbytes) is enabled.  This will result in the file
              being corrupted.

          Default: AUTO

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stderr_logfile_maxbytes
          The maximum number of bytes before logfile rotation for  stderr_logfile.   Accepts  the
          same value types as stdout_logfile_maxbytes.

          Default: 50MB

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stderr_logfile_backups
          The  number  of backups to keep around resulting from process stderr log file rotation.
          If set to 0, no backups will be kept.

          Default: 10

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stderr_capture_maxbytes
          Max number of bytes written to capture FIFO when process is in  "stderr  capture  mode"
          (see  capture_mode).  Should be an integer (suffix multipliers like "KB", "MB" and "GB"
          can used in the value).  If this value is 0, process capture mode will be off.

          Default: 0

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       stderr_events_enabled
          If true, PROCESS_LOG_STDERR events will be emitted  when  the  process  writes  to  its
          stderr  file descriptor.  The events will only be emitted if the file descriptor is not
          in capture mode at the time the data is received (see capture_mode).

          Default: false

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0a7

       environment
          A list of key/value pairs in the form KEY="val",KEY2="val2" that will be placed in  the
          child   process'  environment.   The  environment  string  may  contain  Python  string
          expressions  that  will  be  evaluated  against  a  dictionary  containing  group_name,
          host_node_name,  process_num,  program_name, and here (the directory of the supervisord
          config file).  Values containing non-alphanumeric characters  should  be  quoted  (e.g.
          KEY="val:123",KEY2="val,456").    Otherwise,   quoting   the  values  is  optional  but
          recommended.  Note that the subprocess will inherit the environment  variables  of  the
          shell   used  to  start  "supervisord"  except  for  the  ones  overridden  here.   See
          subprocess_environment.

          Default: No extra environment

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       directory
          A file path representing a directory to  which  supervisord  should  temporarily  chdir
          before exec'ing the child.

          Default: No chdir (inherit supervisor's)

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       umask
          An octal number (e.g. 002, 022) representing the umask of the process.

          Default: No special umask (inherit supervisor's)

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       serverurl
          The  URL  passed  in the environment to the subprocess process as SUPERVISOR_SERVER_URL
          (see supervisor.childutils) to allow the subprocess  to  easily  communicate  with  the
          internal HTTP server.  If provided, it should have the same syntax and structure as the
          [supervisorctl] section option of the same name.  If this is set to AUTO, or is  unset,
          supervisor  will  automatically  construct  a server URL, giving preference to a server
          that listens on UNIX domain sockets over one that listens on an internet socket.

          Default: AUTO

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [program:x] Section Example
          [program:cat]
          command=/bin/cat
          process_name=%(program_name)s
          numprocs=1
          directory=/tmp
          umask=022
          priority=999
          autostart=true
          autorestart=unexpected
          startsecs=10
          startretries=3
          exitcodes=0,2
          stopsignal=TERM
          stopwaitsecs=10
          stopasgroup=false
          killasgroup=false
          user=chrism
          redirect_stderr=false
          stdout_logfile=/a/path
          stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stdout_logfile_backups=10
          stdout_capture_maxbytes=1MB
          stdout_events_enabled=false
          stderr_logfile=/a/path
          stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stderr_logfile_backups=10
          stderr_capture_maxbytes=1MB
          stderr_events_enabled=false
          environment=A="1",B="2"
          serverurl=AUTO

   [include] Section Settings
       The supervisord.conf file may contain a section named  [include].   If  the  configuration
       file  contains  an  [include]  section,  it  must contain a single key named "files".  The
       values  in  this  key  specify  other  configuration  files  to  be  included  within  the
       configuration.

   [include] Section Values
       files
          A  space-separated sequence of file globs.  Each file glob may be absolute or relative.
          If the file glob is relative,  it  is  considered  relative  to  the  location  of  the
          configuration  file  which  includes  it.   A  "glob" is a file pattern which matches a
          specified pattern according to the rules used by the Unix shell. No tilde expansion  is
          done,  but  *,  ?,  and  character  ranges expressed with [] will be correctly matched.
          Recursive includes from included files are not supported.

          Default: No default (required)

          Required:  Yes.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [include] Section Example
          [include]
          files = /an/absolute/filename.conf /an/absolute/*.conf foo.conf config??.conf

   [group:x] Section Settings
       It is often useful to group "homogeneous" process groups (aka "programs") together into  a
       "heterogeneous"  process  group  so  they  can  be  controlled as a unit from Supervisor's
       various controller interfaces.

       To place programs into a group so you can treat them as a unit, define a [group:x] section
       in  your  configuration  file.   The  group  header  value is a composite.  It is the word
       "group", followed directly by a colon, then the group name.  A header value of [group:foo]
       describes  a  group  with  the name of "foo".  The name is used within client applications
       that control the processes that are created as a result of this configuration.  It  is  an
       error  to  create  a group section that does not have a name.  The name must not include a
       colon character or a bracket character.

       For a [group:x], there must  be  one  or  more  [program:x]  sections  elsewhere  in  your
       configuration file, and the group must refer to them by name in the programs value.

       If  "homogeneous"  process  groups  (represented  by  program  sections) are placed into a
       "heterogeneous" group via [group:x] section's programs line, the homogeneous  groups  that
       are  implied by the program section will not exist at runtime in supervisor.  Instead, all
       processes  belonging  to  each  of  the  homogeneous  groups  will  be  placed  into   the
       heterogeneous group.  For example, given the following group configuration:

          [group:foo]
          programs=bar,baz
          priority=999

       Given  the  above,  at  supervisord  startup,  the bar and baz homogeneous groups will not
       exist, and the processes that would have been under them will now be moved  into  the  foo
       group.

   [group:x] Section Values
       programs
          A  comma-separated list of program names.  The programs which are listed become members
          of the group.

          Default: No default (required)

          Required:  Yes.

          Introduced: 3.0

       priority
          A priority number analogous to a [program:x] priority value assigned to the group.

          Default: 999

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [group:x] Section Example
          [group:foo]
          programs=bar,baz
          priority=999

   [fcgi-program:x] Section Settings
       Supervisor can manage groups of FastCGI processes that all  listen  on  the  same  socket.
       Until  now,  deployment  flexibility  for  FastCGI  was  limited.   To  get  full  process
       management, you could use mod_fastcgi under Apache but then you were stuck  with  Apache's
       inefficient  concurrency  model  of  one process or thread per connection.  In addition to
       requiring more CPU and memory resources, the process/thread per connection  model  can  be
       quickly  saturated  by  a slow resource, preventing other resources from being served.  In
       order to take advantage of newer event-driven web servers such as lighttpd or nginx  which
       don't  include  a  built-in  process  manager,  you  had  to  use scripts like cgi-fcgi or
       spawn-fcgi.  These can be used in conjunction with a process manager such  as  supervisord
       or  daemontools  but  require  each  FastCGI child process to bind to its own socket.  The
       disadvantages of this are: unnecessarily complicated web server configuration,  ungraceful
       restarts,  and  reduced  fault  tolerance.   With  fewer  sockets to configure, web server
       configurations are much smaller if groups of FastCGI processes can share sockets.   Shared
       sockets allow for graceful restarts because the socket remains bound by the parent process
       while any of the child processes are being restarted.  Finally, shared  sockets  are  more
       fault  tolerant  because  if  a given process fails, other processes can continue to serve
       inbound connections.

       With integrated FastCGI spawning support, Supervisor gives you the best  of  both  worlds.
       You  get full-featured process management with groups of FastCGI processes sharing sockets
       without being tied to a particular web server.   It's  a  clean  separation  of  concerns,
       allowing the web server and the process manager to each do what they do best.

       NOTE:
          The  socket manager in Supervisor was originally developed to support FastCGI processes
          but it is not limited to FastCGI.  Other protocols may be used as well with no  special
          configuration.  Any program that can access an open socket from a file descriptor (e.g.
          with  socket.fromfd  in  Python)  can  use  the  socket   manager.    Supervisor   will
          automatically  create  the socket, bind, and listen before forking the first child in a
          group.  The socket will be passed to each child on file  descriptor  number  0  (zero).
          When the last child in the group exits, Supervisor will close the socket.

       All  the  options  available  to  [program:x]  sections are also respected by fcgi-program
       sections.

   [fcgi-program:x] Section Values
       [fcgi-program:x] sections have a single key which [program:x] sections do not have.

       socket
          The FastCGI socket for this program, either TCP or UNIX domain socket. For TCP sockets,
          use    this    format:    tcp://localhost:9002.    For   UNIX   domain   sockets,   use
          unix:///absolute/path/to/file.sock.   String  expressions  are  evaluated   against   a
          dictionary  containing  the  keys  "program_name"  and  "here"  (the  directory  of the
          supervisord config file).

          Default: No default.

          Required:  Yes.

          Introduced: 3.0

       socket_owner
          For UNIX domain sockets, this parameter can be used to specify the user and  group  for
          the  FastCGI  socket. May be a UNIX username (e.g. chrism) or a UNIX username and group
          separated by a colon (e.g. chrism:wheel).

          Default: Uses the user and group set for the fcgi-program

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       socket_mode
          For UNIX domain sockets, this parameter can be used to specify the permission mode.

          Default: 0700

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

       Consult [program:x] Section Settings for other allowable keys, delta the above constraints
       and additions.

   [fcgi-program:x] Section Example
          [fcgi-program:fcgiprogramname]
          command=/usr/bin/example.fcgi
          socket=unix:///var/run/supervisor/%(program_name)s.sock
          socket_owner=chrism
          socket_mode=0700
          process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
          numprocs=5
          directory=/tmp
          umask=022
          priority=999
          autostart=true
          autorestart=unexpected
          startsecs=1
          startretries=3
          exitcodes=0,2
          stopsignal=QUIT
          stopasgroup=false
          killasgroup=false
          stopwaitsecs=10
          user=chrism
          redirect_stderr=true
          stdout_logfile=/a/path
          stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stdout_logfile_backups=10
          stdout_events_enabled=false
          stderr_logfile=/a/path
          stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stderr_logfile_backups=10
          stderr_events_enabled=false
          environment=A="1",B="2"
          serverurl=AUTO

   [eventlistener:x] Section Settings
       Supervisor  allows  specialized  homogeneous process groups ("event listener pools") to be
       defined within the configuration file.  These pools contain processes that  are  meant  to
       receive and respond to event notifications from supervisor's event system.  See events for
       an explanation of how events work and how to implement programs that can  be  declared  as
       event listeners.

       Note that all the options available to [program:x] sections are respected by eventlistener
       sections except for stdout_capture_maxbytes and stderr_capture_maxbytes  (event  listeners
       cannot emit process communication events, see capture_mode).

   [eventlistener:x] Section Values
       [eventlistener:x] sections have a few keys which [program:x] sections do not have.

       buffer_size
          The event listener pool's event queue buffer size.  When a listener pool's event buffer
          is overflowed (as can happen when an event listener pool cannot keep up with all of the
          events sent to it), the oldest event in the buffer is discarded.

       events
          A  comma-separated  list  of  event  type  names  that this listener is "interested" in
          receiving notifications for (see event_types for a list of valid event type names).

       result_handler
          A pkg_resources entry point string that resolves to a  Python  callable.   The  default
          value   is  supervisor.dispatchers:default_handler.   Specifying  an  alternate  result
          handler is a very uncommon thing to need to do, and as a result, how to create  one  is
          not documented.

       Consult [program:x] Section Settings for other allowable keys, delta the above constraints
       and additions.

   [eventlistener:x] Section Example
          [eventlistener:theeventlistenername]
          command=/bin/eventlistener
          process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
          numprocs=5
          events=PROCESS_STATE
          buffer_size=10
          directory=/tmp
          umask=022
          priority=-1
          autostart=true
          autorestart=unexpected
          startsecs=1
          startretries=3
          exitcodes=0,2
          stopsignal=QUIT
          stopwaitsecs=10
          stopasgroup=false
          killasgroup=false
          user=chrism
          redirect_stderr=false
          stdout_logfile=/a/path
          stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stdout_logfile_backups=10
          stdout_events_enabled=false
          stderr_logfile=/a/path
          stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
          stderr_logfile_backups=10
          stderr_events_enabled=false
          environment=A="1",B="2"
          serverurl=AUTO

   [rpcinterface:x] Section Settings
       Adding rpcinterface:x settings in the configuration file is only  useful  for  people  who
       wish to extend supervisor with additional custom behavior.

       In  the  sample  config file, there is a section which is named [rpcinterface:supervisor].
       By default it looks like the following.

          [rpcinterface:supervisor]
          supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface

       The [rpcinterface:supervisor] section must remain in the configuration  for  the  standard
       setup  of  supervisor  to  work  properly.  If you don't want supervisor to do anything it
       doesn't already do out of the box, this is all  you  need  to  know  about  this  type  of
       section.

       However, if you wish to add rpc interface namespaces in order to customize supervisor, you
       may add additional [rpcinterface:foo] sections, where "foo" represents  the  namespace  of
       the  interface (from the web root), and the value named by supervisor.rpcinterface_factory
       is a factory callable which should  have  a  function  signature  that  accepts  a  single
       positional  argument  supervisord  and  as  many  keyword arguments as required to perform
       configuration.  Any extra key/value pairs defined within the [rpcinterface:x] section will
       be passed as keyword arguments to the factory.

       Here's  an  example  of  a factory function, created in the __init__.py file of the Python
       package my.package.

          from my.package.rpcinterface import AnotherRPCInterface

          def make_another_rpcinterface(supervisord, **config):
              retries = int(config.get('retries', 0))
              another_rpc_interface = AnotherRPCInterface(supervisord, retries)
              return another_rpc_interface

       And a section in the config file meant to configure it.

          [rpcinterface:another]
          supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = my.package:make_another_rpcinterface
          retries = 1

   [rpcinterface:x] Section Values
       supervisor.rpcinterface_factory
          pkg_resources "entry point" dotted name to your RPC interface's factory function.

          Default: N/A

          Required:  No.

          Introduced: 3.0

   [rpcinterface:x] Section Example
          [rpcinterface:another]
          supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = my.package:make_another_rpcinterface
          retries = 1

   Subprocesses
       supervisord's primary purpose is to create and manage  processes  based  on  data  in  its
       configuration  file.   It  does this by creating subprocesses.  Each subprocess spawned by
       supervisor is managed for the entirety of its lifetime by supervisord (supervisord is  the
       parent  process of each process it creates).  When a child dies, supervisor is notified of
       its death via the SIGCHLD signal, and it performs the appropriate operation.

   Nondaemonizing of Subprocesses
       Programs meant to be run under supervisor should not daemonize themselves.  Instead,  they
       should  run  in  the foreground.  They should not detach from the terminal from which they
       are started.

       The easiest way to tell if a program will run in the foreground is to run the command that
       invokes  the  program  from a shell prompt.  If it gives you control of the terminal back,
       but continues running, it's daemonizing itself and that will almost certainly be the wrong
       way  to  run it under supervisor.  You want to run a command that essentially requires you
       to press Ctrl-C to get control of the terminal back.  If it gives you a shell prompt  back
       after  running  it without needing to press Ctrl-C, it's not useful under supervisor.  All
       programs have options to be run in the foreground but there's no "standard way" to do  it;
       you'll need to read the documentation for each program.

       Below  are  configuration  file  examples  that  are  known  to  start  common programs in
       "foreground" mode under Supervisor.

   Examples of Program Configurations
       Here are some "real world" program configuration examples:

   Apache 2.2.6
          [program:apache2]
          command=/path/to/httpd -c "ErrorLog /dev/stdout" -DFOREGROUND
          redirect_stderr=true

   Two Zope 2.X instances and one ZEO server
          [program:zeo]
          command=/path/to/runzeo
          priority=1

          [program:zope1]
          command=/path/to/instance/home/bin/runzope
          priority=2
          redirect_stderr=true

          [program:zope2]
          command=/path/to/another/instance/home/bin/runzope
          priority=2
          redirect_stderr=true

   Postgres 8.X
          [program:postgres]
          command=/path/to/postmaster
          ; we use the "fast" shutdown signal SIGINT
          stopsignal=INT
          redirect_stderr=true

   OpenLDAP slapd
          [program:slapd]
          command=/path/to/slapd -f /path/to/slapd.conf -h ldap://0.0.0.0:8888
          redirect_stderr=true

   Other Examples
       Other examples of shell scripts that could be used to start services under supervisord can
       be  found  at  http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/services.html.  These examples are actually for
       daemontools but the premise is the same for supervisor.

       Another collection of recipes for starting various programs in the foreground is available
       from http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html.

   pidproxy Program
       Some processes (like mysqld) ignore signals sent to the actual process which is spawned by
       supervisord.  Instead, a "special" thread/process is created by these  kinds  of  programs
       which  is  responsible  for handling signals.  This is problematic because supervisord can
       only kill a process which it creates itself.  If a process created by supervisord  creates
       its own child processes, supervisord cannot kill them.

       Fortunately,  these  types  of  programs  typically  write  a "pidfile" which contains the
       "special" process' PID, and is meant to be read and used in order to kill the process.  As
       a  workaround  for this case, a special pidproxy program can handle startup of these kinds
       of processes.  The pidproxy program is a small shim that starts a process,  and  upon  the
       receipt  of  a  signal,  sends  the  signal  to  the  pid provided in a pidfile.  A sample
       configuration program entry for a pidproxy-enabled program is provided below.

          [program:mysql]
          command=/path/to/pidproxy /path/to/pidfile /path/to/mysqld_safe

       The pidproxy program is put into your configuration's $BINDIR when supervisor is installed
       (it is a "console script").

   Subprocess Environment
       Subprocesses  will  inherit  the  environment  of  the shell used to start the supervisord
       program.  Several environment variables will be set by supervisord itself in  the  child's
       environment  also,  including  SUPERVISOR_ENABLED  (a flag indicating the process is under
       supervisor control), SUPERVISOR_PROCESS_NAME (the config-file-specified process  name  for
       this  process) and SUPERVISOR_GROUP_NAME (the config-file-specified process group name for
       the child process).

       These environment variables may be overridden  within  the  [supervisord]  section  config
       option  named  environment  (applies  to  all subprocesses) or within the per- [program:x]
       section environment config option (applies only to the  subprocess  specified  within  the
       [program:x]  section).   These  "environment" settings are additive.  In other words, each
       subprocess' environment will consist of:
          The environment variables set within the shell used to start supervisord...

          ... added-to/overridden-by ...

          ... the environment variables set within the environment global
                     config option ...

                 ... added-to/overridden-by ...

                 ... supervisor-specific environment variables
                        (SUPERVISOR_ENABLED, SUPERVISOR_PROCESS_NAME, SUPERVISOR_GROUP_NAME) ..

                 ... added-to/overridden-by ...

                 ... the environment variables set within the per-process
                        "environment" config option.

       No shell is executed by supervisord when it runs a subprocess,  so  environment  variables
       such  as  USER,  PATH,  HOME,  SHELL, LOGNAME, etc. are not changed from their defaults or
       otherwise reassigned.  This is particularly important to  note  when  you  are  running  a
       program  from  a supervisord run as root with a user= stanza in the configuration.  Unlike
       cron, supervisord does not  attempt  to  divine  and  override  "fundamental"  environment
       variables like USER, PATH, HOME, and LOGNAME when it performs a setuid to the user defined
       within the user= program config option.  If you need to set environment  variables  for  a
       particular  program  that  might  otherwise  be set by a shell invocation for a particular
       user, you must do it explicitly within the environment= program config option.  An example
       of setting these environment variables is as below.

          [program:apache2]
          command=/home/chrism/bin/httpd -c "ErrorLog /dev/stdout" -DFOREGROUND
          user=chrism
          environment=HOME="/home/chrism",USER="chrism"

   Process States
       A  process controlled by supervisord will be in one of the below states at any given time.
       You may see these state names in various user interface elements in clients.

       STOPPED (0)
          The process has been stopped due to a stop request or has never been started.

       STARTING (10)
          The process is starting due to a start request.

       RUNNING (20)
          The process is running.

       BACKOFF (30)
          The process entered the STARTING state but subsequently exited too quickly to  move  to
          the RUNNING state.

       STOPPING (40)
          The process is stopping due to a stop request.

       EXITED (100)
          The process exited from the RUNNING state (expectedly or unexpectedly).

       FATAL (200)
          The process could not be started successfully.

       UNKNOWN (1000)
          The process is in an unknown state (supervisord programming error).

       Each  process  run  under  supervisor progresses through these states as per the following
       directed graph.
         [image:  Subprocess  State  Transition  Graph]  [image]  Subprocess   State   Transition
         Graph.UNINDENT

         A  process  is  in the STOPPED state if it has been stopped adminstratively or if it has
         never been started.

         When an autorestarting process is  in  the  BACKOFF  state,  it  will  be  automatically
         restarted  by  supervisord.  It will switch between STARTING and BACKOFF states until it
         becomes evident that it cannot  be  started  because  the  number  of  startretries  has
         exceeded  the maximum, at which point it will transition to the FATAL state.  Each start
         retry will take progressively more time.

         When a process is in the EXITED state, it will automatically restart:

       • never if its autorestart parameter is set to false.

       • unconditionally if its autorestart parameter is set to true.

       • conditionally if its autorestart parameter is set to unexpected.  If it exited  with  an
         exit  code  that  doesn't  match  one  of  the  exit  codes  defined  in  the  exitcodes
         configuration parameter for the process, it will be restarted.

       A process automatically transitions from EXITED to RUNNING as a result of being configured
       to  autorestart  conditionally  or  unconditionally.   The  number  of transitions between
       RUNNING and EXITED is not limited in any way: it is possible  to  create  a  configuration
       that endlessly restarts an exited process.  This is a feature, not a bug.

       An  autorestarted process will never be automatically restarted if it ends up in the FATAL
       state (it must be manually restarted from this state).

       A process transitions into the STOPPING state via an administrative stop request, and will
       then end up in the STOPPED state.

       A  process  that  cannot  be stopped successfully will stay in the STOPPING state forever.
       This situation should never be reached during normal operations as  it  implies  that  the
       process  did  not  respond  to  a  final SIGKILL signal sent to it by supervisor, which is
       "impossible" under UNIX.

       State transitions which always require user action to invoke are these:

       FATAL   -> STARTING

       RUNNING -> STOPPING

       State transitions which typically, but not always,  require  user  action  to  invoke  are
       these, with exceptions noted:

       STOPPED -> STARTING (except at supervisord startup if process is configured to autostart)

       EXITED -> STARTING (except if process is configured to autorestart)

       All other state transitions are managed by supervisord automatically.

   Logging
       One  of the main tasks that supervisord performs is logging.  supervisord logs an activity
       log detailing what it's doing as it runs.  It also logs child process  stdout  and  stderr
       output to other files if configured to do so.

   Activity Log
       The  activity  log  is the place where supervisord logs messages about its own health, its
       subprocess'  state  changes,  any  messages  that  result  from  events,  and  debug   and
       informational  messages.   The  path  to  the  activity  log is configured via the logfile
       parameter  in  the  [supervisord]  section  of  the  configuration  file,  defaulting   to
       $CWD/supervisord.log.   Sample  activity  log traffic is shown in the example below.  Some
       lines have been broken to better fit the screen.

   Sample Activity Log Output
          2007-09-08 14:43:22,886 DEBG 127.0.0.1:Medusa (V1.11) started at Sat Sep  8 14:43:22 2007
                  Hostname: kingfish
                  Port:9001
          2007-09-08 14:43:22,961 INFO RPC interface 'supervisor' initialized
          2007-09-08 14:43:22,961 CRIT Running without any HTTP authentication checking
          2007-09-08 14:43:22,962 INFO supervisord started with pid 27347
          2007-09-08 14:43:23,965 INFO spawned: 'listener_00' with pid 27349
          2007-09-08 14:43:23,970 INFO spawned: 'eventgen' with pid 27350
          2007-09-08 14:43:23,990 INFO spawned: 'grower' with pid 27351
          2007-09-08 14:43:24,059 DEBG 'listener_00' stderr output:
           /Users/chrism/projects/supervisor/supervisor2/dev-sandbox/bin/python:
           can't open file '/Users/chrism/projects/supervisor/supervisor2/src/supervisor/scripts/osx_eventgen_listener.py':
           [Errno 2] No such file or directory
          2007-09-08 14:43:24,060 DEBG fd 7 closed, stopped monitoring <PEventListenerDispatcher at 19910168 for
           <Subprocess at 18892960 with name listener_00 in state STARTING> (stdout)>
          2007-09-08 14:43:24,060 INFO exited: listener_00 (exit status 2; not expected)
          2007-09-08 14:43:24,061 DEBG received SIGCHLD indicating a child quit

       The activity log "level" is configured in the config file via the  loglevel  parameter  in
       the  [supervisord]  ini  file  section.   When  loglevel is set, messages of the specified
       priority, plus those with any higher  priority  are  logged  to  the  activity  log.   For
       example,  if  loglevel  is  error, messages of error and critical priority will be logged.
       However, if loglevel is warn, messages of warn, error, and critical will be logged.

   Activity Log Levels
       The below table describes the logging levels in more detail, ordered in  highest  priority
       to  lowest.   The  "Config File Value" is the string provided to the loglevel parameter in
       the [supervisord] section of configuration file and the "Output Code"  is  the  code  that
       shows up in activity log output lines.

                      ┌──────────────────┬─────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
                      │Config File Value │ Output Code │ Description              │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │critical          │ CRIT        │ Messages that indicate a │
                      │                  │             │ condition that  requires │
                      │                  │             │ immediate           user │
                      │                  │             │ attention, a  supervisor │
                      │                  │             │ state   change,   or  an │
                      │                  │             │ error   in    supervisor │
                      │                  │             │ itself.                  │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │error             │ ERRO        │ Messages that indicate a │
                      │                  │             │ potentially    ignorable │
                      │                  │             │ error   condition  (e.g. │
                      │                  │             │ unable to  clear  a  log │
                      │                  │             │ directory).              │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │warn              │ WARN        │ Messages  that  indicate │
                      │                  │             │ an  anomalous  condition │
                      │                  │             │ which isn't an error.    │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │info              │ INFO        │ Normal     informational │
                      │                  │             │ output.   This  is   the │
                      │                  │             │ default   log  level  if │
                      │                  │             │ none    is    explicitly │
                      │                  │             │ configured.              │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │debug             │ DEBG        │ Messages    useful   for │
                      │                  │             │ users  trying  to  debug │
                      │                  │             │ process    configuration │
                      │                  │             │ and       communications │
                      │                  │             │ behavior        (process │
                      │                  │             │ output,  listener  state │
                      │                  │             │ changes,           event │
                      │                  │             │ notifications).          │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │trace             │ TRAC        │ Messages   useful    for │
                      │                  │             │ developers   trying   to │
                      │                  │             │ debug         supervisor │
                      │                  │             │ plugins, and information │
                      │                  │             │ about   HTTP   and   RPC │
                      │                  │             │ requests and responses.  │
                      ├──────────────────┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                      │blather           │ BLAT        │ Messages    useful   for │
                      │                  │             │ developers   trying   to │
                      │                  │             │ debug supervisor itself. │
                      └──────────────────┴─────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

   Activity Log Rotation
       The   activity   log  is  "rotated"  by  supervisord  based  on  the  combination  of  the
       logfile_maxbytes and the logfile_backups parameters in the [supervisord]  section  of  the
       configuration file.  When the activity log reaches logfile_maxbytes bytes, the current log
       file is moved to a backup file and a new activity log file is created.  When this happens,
       if  the  number  of existing backup files is greater than or equal to logfile_backups, the
       oldest backup file is removed and the backup files are renamed accordingly.  If  the  file
       being  written to is named supervisord.log, when it exceeds logfile_maxbytes, it is closed
       and renamed to supervisord.log.1, and if files supervisord.log.1,  supervisord.log.2  etc.
       exist,  then  they are renamed to supervisord.log.2, supervisord.log.3 etc.  respectively.
       If logfile_maxbytes is 0, the logfile is never rotated (and thus backups are never  made).
       If logfile_backups is 0, no backups will be kept.

   Child Process Logs
       The stdout of child processes spawned by supervisor, by default, is captured for redisplay
       to users of supervisorctl and other clients.  If no specific logfile-related configuration
       is  performed  in  a  [program:x],  [fcgi-program:x],  or [eventlistener:x] section in the
       configuration file, the following is true:

       • supervisord will capture the child process' stdout  and  stderr  output  into  temporary
         files.  Each stream is captured to a separate file.  This is known as AUTO log mode.

       • AUTO  log  files  are  named  automatically  and  placed  in the directory configured as
         childlogdir of the [supervisord] section of the config file.

       • The size of each AUTO log file is bounded by the {streamname}_logfile_maxbytes value  of
         the  program section (where {streamname} is "stdout" or "stderr").  When it reaches that
         number,   it    is    rotated    (like    the    activity    log),    based    on    the
         {streamname}_logfile_backups.

       The   configuration   keys  that  influence  child  process  logging  in  [program:x]  and
       [fcgi-program:x] sections are these:

       redirect_stderr,    stdout_logfile,    stdout_logfile_maxbytes,    stdout_logfile_backups,
       stdout_capture_maxbytes,  stderr_logfile,  stderr_logfile_maxbytes, stderr_logfile_backups
       and stderr_capture_maxbytes.

       One may set stdout_logfile or stderr_logfile to the special string "syslog". In this case,
       logs will be routed to the syslog service instead of being saved to files.

       [eventlistener:x]  sections  may  not specify redirect_stderr, stdout_capture_maxbytes, or
       stderr_capture_maxbytes, but otherwise they accept the same values.

       The configuration keys that influence child process logging in  the  [supervisord]  config
       file section are these: childlogdir, and nocleanup.

   Capture Mode
       Capture  mode  is  an advanced feature of Supervisor.  You needn't understand capture mode
       unless you want to take actions based on data parsed from subprocess output.

       If   a   [program:x]   section   in   the   configuration   file   defines   a    non-zero
       stdout_capture_maxbytes  or stderr_capture_maxbytes parameter, each process represented by
       the program section may emit special tokens on its stdout or stderr stream  (respectively)
       which  will effectively cause supervisor to emit a PROCESS_COMMUNICATION event (see events
       for a description of events).

       The process communications protocol relies on two tags, one which commands  supervisor  to
       enter  "capture  mode"  for  the stream and one which commands it to exit.  When a process
       stream enters "capture mode", data sent to the stream will be sent to a separate buffer in
       memory,  the  "capture  buffer", which is allowed to contain a maximum of capture_maxbytes
       bytes.  During capture mode, when the buffer's length exceeds capture_maxbytes bytes,  the
       earliest data in the buffer is discarded to make room for new data.  When a process stream
       exits capture mode, a PROCESS_COMMUNICATION event subtype is emitted by supervisor,  which
       may be intercepted by event listeners.

       The  tag to begin "capture mode" in a process stream is <!--XSUPERVISOR:BEGIN-->.  The tag
       to exit capture mode is <!--XSUPERVISOR:END-->.   The  data  between  these  tags  may  be
       arbitrary,  and  forms  the payload of the PROCESS_COMMUNICATION event.  For example, if a
       program is set up with a stdout_capture_maxbytes of "1MB", and it emits the  following  on
       its stdout stream:

          <!--XSUPERVISOR:BEGIN-->Hello!<!--XSUPERVISOR:END-->

       In  this  circumstance,  supervisord  will emit a PROCESS_COMMUNICATIONS_STDOUT event with
       data in the payload of "Hello!".

       An example of a script (written in Python) which emits a process communication event is in
       the scripts directory of the supervisor package, named sample_commevent.py.

       The output of processes specified as "event listeners" ([eventlistener:x] sections) is not
       processed this way.  Output from these processes cannot enter capture mode.

   Extending Supervisor's XML-RPC API
       Supervisor can be extended with new XML-RPC APIs.   Several  third-party  plugins  already
       exist  that  can  be wired into your Supervisor configuration.  You may additionally write
       your own.  Extensible XML-RPC interfaces is an advanced  feature,  introduced  in  version
       3.0.   You  needn't  understand  it  unless  you  wish  to use an existing third-party RPC
       interface plugin or if you wish to write your own RPC interface plugin.

   Configuring XML-RPC Interface Factories
       An additional RPC interface is configured into  a  supervisor  installation  by  adding  a
       [rpcinterface:x] section in the Supervisor configuration file.

       In  the  sample  config file, there is a section which is named [rpcinterface:supervisor].
       By default it looks like this:

          [rpcinterface:supervisor]
          supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface

       This section must remain in the configuration for the standard setup of supervisor to work
       properly.   If  you  don't want supervisor to do anything it doesn't already do out of the
       box, this is all you need to know about this type of section.

       However, if you wish to add additional XML-RPC interface namespaces to a configuration  of
       supervisor, you may add additional [rpcinterface:foo] sections, where "foo" represents the
       namespace  of  the  interface  (from   the   web   root),   and   the   value   named   by
       supervisor.rpcinterface_factory  is a factory callable written in Python which should have
       a function signature that accepts a single positional argument  supervisord  and  as  many
       keyword  arguments  as  required  to  perform  configuration.  Any key/value pairs defined
       within the rpcinterface:foo section will be passed as keyword arguments  to  the  factory.
       Here's an example of a factory function, created in the package my.package.

          def make_another_rpcinterface(supervisord, **config):
              retries = int(config.get('retries', 0))
              another_rpc_interface = AnotherRPCInterface(supervisord, retries)
              return another_rpc_interface

       And a section in the config file meant to configure it.

          [rpcinterface:another]
          supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = my.package:make_another_rpcinterface
          retries = 1

   Glossary
       daemontools
              A process control system by D.J. Bernstein.

       launchd
              A process control system used by Apple as process 1 under Mac OS X.

       runit  A process control system.

       Superlance
              A  package  which  provides  various  event listener implementations that plug into
              Supervisor  which  can  help  monitor  process  memory  usage  and  crash   status:
              http://pypi.python.org/pypi/superlance.

       umask  Abbreviation of user mask: sets the file mode creation mask of the current process.
              See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask.

API DOCUMENTATION

   XML-RPC API Documentation
       To use the XML-RPC interface, connect to supervisor's HTTP port with  any  XML-RPC  client
       library  and  run  commands against it.  An example of doing this using Python's xmlrpclib
       client library is as follows.

          import xmlrpclib
          server = xmlrpclib.Server('http://localhost:9001/RPC2')

       You may call methods against supervisord and its  subprocesses  by  using  the  supervisor
       namespace.  An example is provided below.

          server.supervisor.getState()

       You  can get a list of methods supported by the supervisord XML-RPC interface by using the
       XML-RPC system.listMethods API:

          server.system.listMethods()

       You can see help on a method by using the system.methodHelp API against the method:

          server.system.methodHelp('supervisor.shutdown')

       The supervisord XML-RPC interface also supports the XML-RPC multicall API.

       You can extend supervisord functionality with  new  XML-RPC  API  methods  by  adding  new
       top-level RPC interfaces as necessary.  See rpcinterface_factories.

       NOTE:
          Any XML-RPC method call may result in a fault response.  This includes errors caused by
          the client such as bad arguments, and  any  errors  that  make  supervisord  unable  to
          fulfill the request.  Many XML-RPC client programs will raise an exception when a fault
          response is encountered.

   Status and Control
          class supervisor.rpcinterface.SupervisorNamespaceRPCInterface(supervisord)

                 getAPIVersion()
                        Return the version of the RPC API used by supervisord

                        @return string version version id

                        This API is versioned separately from Supervisor itself. The API  version
                        returned  by getAPIVersion only changes when the API changes. Its purpose
                        is to help the client identify with which version of the  Supervisor  API
                        it is communicating.

                        When  writing  software  that  communicates  with  this API, it is highly
                        recommended that you first test the API version for compatibility  before
                        making method calls.

                        NOTE:
                            The  getAPIVersion  method  replaces  getVersion  found in Supervisor
                            versions  prior  to  3.0a1.  It  is  aliased  for  compatibility  but
                            getVersion()   is   deprecated  and  support  will  be  dropped  from
                            Supervisor in a future version.

                 getSupervisorVersion()
                        Return the version of the supervisor package in use by supervisord

                        @return string version version id

                 getIdentification()
                        Return identifiying string of supervisord

                        @return string identifier identifying string

                        This method allows the client to identify with which Supervisor  instance
                        it   is   communicating  in  the  case  of  environments  where  multiple
                        Supervisors may be running.

                        The  identification  is  a  string  that  must  be  set  in  Supervisor’s
                        configuration  file.  This  method  simply returns that value back to the
                        client.

                 getState()
                        Return current state of supervisord as a struct

                        @return struct A struct with keys int statecode, string statename

                        This is an internal value maintained by Supervisor that  determines  what
                        Supervisor believes to be its current operational state.

                        Some  method  calls  can  alter  the current state of the Supervisor. For
                        example, calling the method supervisor.shutdown() while the station is in
                        the RUNNING state places the Supervisor in the SHUTDOWN state while it is
                        shutting down.

                        The supervisor.getState() method provides a means for the client to check
                        Supervisor's  state,  both  for informational purposes and to ensure that
                        the methods it intends to call will be permitted.

                        The return value is a struct:

                            {'statecode': 1,
                             'statename': 'RUNNING'}

                        The possible return values are:

                                   ┌──────────┬────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
                                   │statecode │ statename  │ Description              │
                                   ├──────────┼────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                   │2         │ FATAL      │ Supervisor           has │
                                   │          │            │ experienced   a  serious │
                                   │          │            │ error.                   │
                                   ├──────────┼────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                   │1         │ RUNNING    │ Supervisor  is   working │
                                   │          │            │ normally.                │
                                   ├──────────┼────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                   │0         │ RESTARTING │ Supervisor   is  in  the │
                                   │          │            │ process of restarting.   │
                                   ├──────────┼────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                   │-1        │ SHUTDOWN   │ Supervisor  is  in   the │
                                   │          │            │ process    of   shutting │
                                   │          │            │ down.                    │
                                   └──────────┴────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

                        The FATAL state reports unrecoverable errors,  such  as  internal  errors
                        inside  Supervisor  or  system runaway conditions. Once set to FATAL, the
                        Supervisor can never return to any other state without being restarted.

                        In the FATAL state, all future methods except  supervisor.shutdown()  and
                        supervisor.restart() will automatically fail without being called and the
                        fault FATAL_STATE will be raised.

                        In the SHUTDOWN or RESTARTING states, all method calls  are  ignored  and
                        their possible return values are undefined.

                 getPID()
                        Return the PID of supervisord

                        @return int PID

                 readLog(offset, length)
                        Read length bytes from the main log starting at offset

                        @param  int  offset          offset  to  start  reading from.  @param int
                        length         number of bytes to read  from  the  log.   @return  string
                        result     Bytes of log

                        It can either return the entire log, a number of characters from the tail
                        of the log, or a slice of the log specified  by  the  offset  and  length
                        parameters:

                                ┌─────────────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────────┐
                                │Offset           │ Length   │ Behavior              of │
                                │                 │          │ readProcessLog           │
                                ├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                │Negative         │ Not Zero │ Bad arguments. This will │
                                │                 │          │ raise      the     fault │
                                │                 │          │ BAD_ARGUMENTS.           │
                                └─────────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────┘

                                │Negative         │ Zero     │ This  will  return   the │
                                │                 │          │ tail   of  the  log,  or │
                                │                 │          │ offset     number     of │
                                │                 │          │ characters  from the end │
                                │                 │          │ of   the    log.     For │
                                │                 │          │ example,  if offset = -4 │
                                │                 │          │ and length = 0, then the │
                                │                 │          │ last   four   characters │
                                │                 │          │ will  be  returned  from │
                                │                 │          │ the end of the log.      │
                                ├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                │Zero or Positive │ Negative │ Bad arguments. This will │
                                │                 │          │ raise     the      fault │
                                │                 │          │ BAD_ARGUMENTS.           │
                                ├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                │Zero or Positive │ Zero     │ All  characters  will be │
                                │                 │          │ returned from the offset │
                                │                 │          │ specified.               │
                                ├─────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────┤
                                │Zero or Positive │ Positive │ A  number  of characters │
                                │                 │          │ length will be  returned │
                                │                 │          │ from the offset.         │
                                └─────────────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────┘

                        If  the  log is empty and the entire log is requested, an empty string is
                        returned.

                        If either offset or length is out of range, the fault BAD_ARGUMENTS  will
                        be returned.

                        If  the  log  cannot  be  read, this method will raise either the NO_FILE
                        error if the file does not exist or the FAILED error if any other problem
                        was encountered.

                        NOTE:
                            The  readLog()  method  replaces  readMainLog()  found  in Supervisor
                            versions  prior  to  2.1.  It  is  aliased  for   compatibility   but
                            readMainLog()   is  deprecated  and  support  will  be  dropped  from
                            Supervisor in a future version.

                 clearLog()
                        Clear the main log.

                        @return boolean result always returns True unless error

                        If the log cannot be cleared because the log file  does  not  exist,  the
                        fault  NO_FILE will be raised. If the log cannot be cleared for any other
                        reason, the fault FAILED will be raised.

                 shutdown()
                        Shut down the supervisor process

                        @return boolean result always returns True unless error

                        This method shuts down  the  Supervisor  daemon.  If  any  processes  are
                        running, they are automatically killed without warning.

                        Unlike  most  other  methods,  if  Supervisor is in the FATAL state, this
                        method will still function.

                 restart()
                        Restart the supervisor process

                        @return boolean result  always return True unless error

                        This method soft restarts the Supervisor daemon.  If  any  processes  are
                        running,  they  are  automatically  killed without warning. Note that the
                        actual UNIX process for Supervisor cannot restart; only Supervisor’s main
                        program  loop.  This  has  the effect of resetting the internal states of
                        Supervisor.

                        Unlike most other methods, if Supervisor is  in  the  FATAL  state,  this
                        method will still function.

   Process Control
          class supervisor.rpcinterface.SupervisorNamespaceRPCInterface(supervisord)

                 getProcessInfo(name)
                        Get info about a process named name

                        @param  string  name  The  name  of the process (or 'group:name') @return
                        struct result     A structure containing data about the process

                        The return value is a struct:

                            {'name':           'process name',
                             'group':          'group name',
                             'description':    'pid 18806, uptime 0:03:12'
                             'start':          1200361776,
                             'stop':           0,
                             'now':            1200361812,
                             'state':          1,
                             'statename':      'RUNNING',
                             'spawnerr':       '',
                             'exitstatus':     0,
                             'logfile':        '/path/to/stdout-log', # deprecated, b/c only
                             'stdout_logfile': '/path/to/stdout-log',
                             'stderr_logfile': '/path/to/stderr-log',
                             'pid':            1}

                        name   Name of the process

                        group  Name of the process' group

                        description
                               If process state is running description's value is process_id  and
                               uptime. Example "pid 18806, uptime 0:03:12 ".  If process state is
                               stopped description's value is stop time.  Example:"Jun 5 03:16 PM
                               ".

                        start  UNIX timestamp of when the process was started

                        stop   UNIX timestamp of when the process last ended, or 0 if the process
                               has never been stopped.

                        now    UNIX timestamp of the current time, which can be used to calculate
                               process up-time.

                        state  State code, see process_states.

                        statename
                               String description of state, see process_states.

                        logfile
                               Deprecated  alias  for  stdout_logfile.  This is provided only for
                               compatibility with clients written for Supervisor 2.x and  may  be
                               removed in the future.  Use stdout_logfile instead.

                        stdout_logfile
                               Absolute path and filename to the STDOUT logfile

                        stderr_logfile
                               Absolute path and filename to the STDOUT logfile

                        spawnerr
                               Description  of  error that occurred during spawn, or empty string
                               if none.

                        exitstatus
                               Exit status (errorlevel) of process, or 0 if the process is  still
                               running.

                        pid    UNIX  process  ID (PID) of the process, or 0 if the process is not
                               running.

                 getAllProcessInfo()
                        Get info about all processes

                        @return array result  An array of process status results

                        Each element contains a struct, and this struct contains the  exact  same
                        elements  as  the struct returned by getProcessInfo. If the process table
                        is empty, an empty array is returned.

                 startProcess(name, wait=True)
                        Start a process

                        @param string name  Process  name  (or  group:name,  or  group:*)  @param
                        boolean  wait Wait for process to be fully started @return boolean result
                        Always true unless error

                 startAllProcesses(wait=True)
                        Start all processes listed in the configuration file

                        @param boolean wait    Wait for each process to be fully started  @return
                        array result   An array of process status info structs

                 startProcessGroup(name, wait=True)
                        Start all processes in the group named 'name'

                        @param  string  name      The  group name @param boolean wait    Wait for
                        each process to be fully started  @return  array  result    An  array  of
                        process status info structs

                 stopProcess(name, wait=True)
                        Stop a process named by name

                        @param  string  name   The  name of the process to stop (or 'group:name')
                        @param boolean wait        Wait for  the  process  to  be  fully  stopped
                        @return boolean result     Always return True unless error

                 stopProcessGroup(name, wait=True)
                        Stop all processes in the process group named 'name'

                        @param  string  name      The  group name @param boolean wait    Wait for
                        each process to be fully stopped  @return  array  result    An  array  of
                        process status info structs

                 stopAllProcesses(wait=True)
                        Stop all processes in the process list

                        @param   boolean wait   Wait for each process to be fully stopped @return
                        array result   An array of process status info structs

                 sendProcessStdin(name, chars)
                        Send a string of chars to the stdin of the process  name.   If  non-7-bit
                        data  is  sent (unicode), it is encoded to utf-8 before being sent to the
                        process' stdin.  If chars is not  a  string  or  is  not  unicode,  raise
                        INCORRECT_PARAMETERS.   If the process is not running, raise NOT_RUNNING.
                        If the process' stdin cannot accept input (e.g.  it  was  closed  by  the
                        child process), raise NO_FILE.

                        @param  string  name        The process name to send to (or 'group:name')
                        @param string chars       The character  data  to  send  to  the  process
                        @return boolean result    Always return True unless error

                 sendRemoteCommEvent(type, data)
                        Send  an  event  that  will  be  received  by event listener subprocesses
                        subscribing to the RemoteCommunicationEvent.

                        @param  string  type  String for the  "type"  key  in  the  event  header
                        @param    string    data    Data  for  the  event  body  @return  boolean
                        Always return True unless error

                 reloadConfig()
                        Reload configuration

                        @return boolean result  always return True unless error

                 addProcessGroup(name)
                        Update the config for a running process from config file.

                        @param string name         name of process group to add  @return  boolean
                        result     true if successful

                 removeProcessGroup(name)
                        Remove a stopped process from the active configuration.

                        @param  string  name          name  of  process  group  to remove @return
                        boolean result     Indicates whether the removal was successful

   Process Logging
          class supervisor.rpcinterface.SupervisorNamespaceRPCInterface(supervisord)

                 readProcessStdoutLog(name, offset, length)
                        Read length bytes from name's stdout log starting at offset

                        @param string name        the  name  of  the  process  (or  'group:name')
                        @param  int  offset          offset  to  start  reading from.  @param int
                        length         number of bytes to read  from  the  log.   @return  string
                        result     Bytes of log

                 readProcessStderrLog(name, offset, length)
                        Read length bytes from name's stderr log starting at offset

                        @param  string  name         the  name  of  the process (or 'group:name')
                        @param int offset         offset  to  start  reading  from.   @param  int
                        length          number  of  bytes  to  read from the log.  @return string
                        result     Bytes of log

                 tailProcessStdoutLog(name, offset, length)
                        Provides  a  more  efficient  way  to  tail   the   (stdout)   log   than
                        readProcessStdoutLog().   Use  readProcessStdoutLog()  to read chunks and
                        tailProcessStdoutLog() to tail.

                        Requests (length) bytes from the (name)'s log, starting at (offset).   If
                        the  total  log size is greater than (offset + length), the overflow flag
                        is set and the (offset) is automatically increased to position the buffer
                        at  the  end  of the log.  If less than (length) bytes are available, the
                        maximum number of available bytes will be returned.  (offset) returned is
                        always the last offset in the log +1.

                        @param  string  name          the  name  of the process (or 'group:name')
                        @param int offset          offset to start reading from @param int length
                        maximum  number  of  bytes  to  return @return array result       [string
                        bytes, int offset, bool overflow]

                 tailProcessStderrLog(name, offset, length)
                        Provides  a  more  efficient  way  to  tail   the   (stderr)   log   than
                        readProcessStderrLog().   Use  readProcessStderrLog()  to read chunks and
                        tailProcessStderrLog() to tail.

                        Requests (length) bytes from the (name)'s log, starting at (offset).   If
                        the  total  log size is greater than (offset + length), the overflow flag
                        is set and the (offset) is automatically increased to position the buffer
                        at  the  end  of the log.  If less than (length) bytes are available, the
                        maximum number of available bytes will be returned.  (offset) returned is
                        always the last offset in the log +1.

                        @param  string  name          the  name  of the process (or 'group:name')
                        @param int offset          offset to start reading from @param int length
                        maximum  number  of  bytes  to  return @return array result       [string
                        bytes, int offset, bool overflow]

                 clearProcessLogs(name)
                        Clear the stdout and stderr logs for the named process and reopen them.

                        @param string name   The name of the process  (or  'group:name')  @return
                        boolean result      Always True unless error

                 clearAllProcessLogs()
                        Clear all process log files

                        @return array result   An array of process status info structs

   System Methods
          class supervisor.xmlrpc.SystemNamespaceRPCInterface(namespaces)

                 listMethods()
                        Return an array listing the available method names

                        @return array result  An array of method names available (strings).

                 methodHelp(name)
                        Return a string showing the method's documentation

                        @param  string  name   The name of the method.  @return string result The
                        documentation for the method name.

                 methodSignature(name)
                        Return an array describing the  method  signature  in  the  form  [rtype,
                        ptype,  ptype...]  where rtype is the return data type of the method, and
                        ptypes are the parameter data types that the  method  accepts  in  method
                        argument order.

                        @param  string  name   The name of the method.  @return array result  The
                        result.

                 multicall(calls)
                        Process an array of calls, and return an array of results.  Calls  should
                        be  structs  of  the  form  {'methodName': string, 'params': array}. Each
                        result will either be a single-item array containing the result value, or
                        a  struct  of the form {'faultCode': int, 'faultString': string}. This is
                        useful when you need to make lots of small calls without  lots  of  round
                        trips.

                        @param  array  calls   An array of call requests @return array result  An
                        array of results

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       This man page was created by Orestis Ioannou  <orestis@oioannou.com>  using  the  official
       documentation.

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