http://supervisord.org Hang on to your processes Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:45:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've signed up as a mentor representing the Python Software Foundation in Google's Summer of Code project. I'm hoping that the PSF/Google sees fit to approve applications from students who are interested in working on the Supervisor UNIX process controller. I've already heard from interested fellow who plans ... http://supervisord.org/2008/03/22/write-supervisor-code-for-gsoc/ A #supervisor channel has been created on irc.freenode.net for the purpose of discussions about the Supervisor UNIX process controller. If you're interested in the project, come drop by! http://supervisord.org/2008/03/21/supervisor-irc-channel/ We presented Supervisor this week at PyCon 2008. We enjoyed meeting many new users and hearing how Supervisor has helped you. Thanks for your support. If you didn't make it to PyCon, here's an overview of our talk: Supervisor is a tool for managing UNIX processes. Supervisor starts arbitrary processes ... http://supervisord.org/2008/03/16/pycon-2008-supervisor-as-a-platform/ Supervisor 3.0a5 has been released! It actually more escaped, as the previous version couldn't be easy_installed after our web presence switcharoo. You can either easy_install it or get it from http://dist.supervisord.org/supervisor-3.0a5.tar.gz The relevant changes from 3.0a4 are Supervisorctl now supports persistent readline history. To enable, add history_file = <pathname> to ... http://supervisord.org/2008/03/13/supervisor-30a5-released/ Supervisor Twiddler is an optional RPC extension for Supervisor that allows Supervisor's configuration and state to be manipulated in ways that are not normally possible at runtime. Changes in release 0.2: Renamed addProcessToGroup() to addProgramToGroup(). The method now supports program definitions with numprocs > 1 and will add ... http://supervisord.org/2008/02/17/supervisor-twiddler-02/ I've made another release of the supervisor process controller (3.0a4). See this announcement for more info. Notable features in this release include a generic way to restart processes that are using "too much" memory, and an actual honest-to-god manual . Supervisor now also has its own (currently stark) web presence. Enjoy! http://supervisord.org/2008/02/05/supervisor-30a4-released/ Chris McDonough and Mike Naberezny will be presenting a talk on Supervisor at PyCon 2008. Supervisor is a tool for managing UNIX processes. Supervisor starts arbitrary processes at its own startup and allows otherwise unprivileged users to start, stop and restart its subprocesses and view its subprocess' logs using a command ... http://supervisord.org/2007/12/21/supervisor-at-pycon-2008/ Maintainable Software released two very cool plugins for supervisor today. The first is supervisor_twiddler which allows you to add arbitrary processes to the supervisor process set via XML-RPC while supervisor is running. The second is supervisor_cache which allows you to stash cache data via XML-RPC inside supervisor. ... http://supervisord.org/2007/11/21/maintainable-releases-supervisor_twiddler-and-supervisor_cache/ You can now download it or get more information . I had hoped that there would be no more alpha releases after this one, but I think there may be one more. Here are the change notes for 3.0a3: - Supervisorctl now reports a better error message ... http://supervisord.org/2007/10/10/supervisor-30a3-released/ While I still don't have some of the features that are going to be required to make a final release of 3.0, enough bugs have been fixed since 3.0a1 to warrant another alpha ( download, info ). Thanks to Mike Naberezny, Drew Perttula, and Calvin Hendryx-Parker for supplying bug ... http://supervisord.org/2007/08/25/supervisor-30a2-released/