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Supervisor

Supervisor is primarily a service that runs as a daemon, and manages other services who either do not natively interface with the system service manager or are run on the user level and are not intended to be run as system wide services. Setup is more involved than pm2, and is completely configuration file based. Supervisor is dependent on it’s daemon process supervisord being started by the system service manager. Thus needs to be enabled and started.

Configuration File Basics

The biggest catch to using supervisor is configuring the service in a supervisor configuration file. These files are typically located at /etc/supervisord.d/ and supervisor’s main configuration file is located /etc/supervisord.conf.

There are too many options to review for this page entry, so it is best to review the documentation provided at supervisord’s github page. Here is a very basic configuration file example.

[example_service]
command=/path/to/cmd
user=someuser
autostart=true
directory=/some/dir ;This for a working dir