Starting supervisord as root or not?

Question

Supervisor is running on 3.0:

pip freeze | grep supervisor
supervisor==3.0

When starting supervisord from the command line:

sud         


        

Answer 1

For me, I received this error while running as a non-root user:

Error: Cannot open an HTTP server: socket.error reported errno.EACCES (13)

This went away after I chowned the directory holding the sock file to that user.

In your case:

[unix_http_server]
file = /opt/run/supervisord.sock

Either chown username /opt/run/, or point the file to another directory that is owned by the user.

I learned this approach from this link.

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Additionally, my sysadmins installed an init.d script I wrote. The init.d script is run as root, but the script can get supervisord to start on myuser with this command:

SUPERVISORD=/path/to/supervisord
PIDFILE=/path/to/supervisord.pid
OPTIONS='-c /path/to/supervisord.conf'
daemon --pidfile=$PIDFILE --user=myuser $SUPERVISORD $OPTIONS