Supervisor Reread Update

I needed to add some options to gunicorn running under supervisor the other day. I ran gunicorn from the command line with the new argurments — no problem. I added the arguments to the command in supervisor, restarted with supervisorctl — problem.

Supervisor wasn’t picking up the new arguments. I restarted again. Nothing. I tried the command arguments inline. I tried a gunicorn conf file. I tried a shell script with the commands. All nothing.

After spending an embarrassing amount of time trying to figure out what was wrong, I finally remembered! You need to reread and update the supervisor conf file after making changes. Simply restarting via supervisorctl is not enough.

supervisorctl reread
supervisorctl update

So don’t forget. Reread and update after changing a supervisor configuration, otherwise it won’t get picked up.