Circus, running circusd as a daemon?

Question

So, I just switched from Supervisor to Circus for controlling Python processes. I'm starting the daemon as circusd from the command line. Obviously, this isn't how I should be doing it, but I can't find any docs on the right way. Enlightenment?

Answer 1

There isn't a built in way to start circus with Upstart. I added a file circus.conf to /etc/init:

start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo
exec /usr/local/bin/circusd /etc/circus.ini

My circus conf is at /etc/circus.ini

After this I can use sudo service circus... to control the process.

Updated with more info here: http://nathancahill.github.com/circus/

Answer 2

The current version of circus (0.13.0) takes a --daemon flag. So you could simply do :

$ circusd circus.ini --daemon

and send the process to background.