Options for controlling the CherryPy process

[Christopher Arndt]

Hi all,

a downtime of the server where I host my TG app has remeinded me to look into
controlling starting/stopping the CherryPy process with some form of boot scripts.

A little googeling brought up several options (for a Linux system), among these

- write a SysV init script (cumbersome & no automatic restarting :-()
- daemontools
- supervisord

How do other people do this? How do daemontools and supervisord compare? Both
seem really straightforward to set up and I'm wondering which are the pros &
cons for each.

Chris

[Christopher Arndt]

Christopher Arndt schrieb:

I'm feeling a bit odd, talking only to myself here ;-) but since nobody had to
share any experiences on this, I had a look at supervisor myself today and
wrote up a little blog post on my experience in setting it up to control a
TurboGears application. You can read it here:

http://paddyland.serveblog.net/article/12

Short summary: works well, but rather laborious to set up.

Chris

[anders pearson]

On 2006-12-05 16:26:04 +0100, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> I'm feeling a bit odd, talking only to myself here ;-) but since nobody had to
> share any experiences on this, I had a look at supervisor myself today and
> wrote up a little blog post on my experience in setting it up to control a
> TurboGears application. You can read it here:
>
> http://paddyland.serveblog.net/article/12

I have a similar writeup here:

http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2006/09/13/TurboGears-Deployment-with-supervisord-and-workingenv-py/

It doesn't cover setting up supervisord as much, but it also gets into
using workingenv.py to isolate app environments.

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[Christopher Arndt]

anders pearson wrote:
> I have a similar writeup here:
>
> http://thraxil.org/users/anders/posts/2006/09/13/TurboGears-Deployment-with-supervisord-and-workingenv-py/
>
> It doesn't cover setting up supervisord as much, but it also gets into
> using workingenv.py to isolate app environments.

Yes, I had read that and trying out workingenv.py is on my TODO list as
well. BTW, it is only through a comment on your post, that I learned
about supervisor2, which was after I already had set up version 1.0.7.
In the meantime, I installed supervisor2 as well but I haven't been
sucessfull in starting my TG app through it so far. I will report back
on this later.

Chris