python - 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:

sudo $VIRTENV/supervisord --nodaemon --configuration $PATH_TO_CONFIG/supervisord.conf

I get this error:

2013-11-11 23:30:50,205 CRIT Supervisor running as root (no user in config file)

But I can't start supervisord without sudo, it complains:

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

What is the right way to deal with it?

(I get the same error if starting it as root but setting user = foobar under the [supervisord] section in supervisord.conf)

Update: Here is my supervisord.conf

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

[inet_http_server]
port = 9001
username = foobar
password = foobar

[rpcinterface:supervisor]
supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface

[supervisord]
logfile = /opt/logs/supervisord.log
loglevel = debug
pidfile = /opt/run/supervisord.pid

[supervisorctl]

[program:foo1]
user = foobar
autostart = True
autorestart = True
command = foo1
stdout_logfile = /opt/logs/foo1.stdout.log
stderr_logfile = /opt/logs/foo1.stderr.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB
stderr_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB

[program:foo2]
user = foobar
autostart = true
autorestart = true
command = foo2
priority = 100
stdout_logfile_backups = 0
stderr_logfile_backups = 0
stdout_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB
stderr_logfile_maxbytes = 10MB
stdout_logfile = /opt/logs/foo2.stdout.log
stderr_logfile = /opt/logs/foo2.stderr.log

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19918177/starting-supervisord-as-root-or-not

Answer 1

Supervisord switches to UNIX user account before any processing.

You need to specify what kind of user account it should use, run the daemon as root but specify user in the config file

Example:

[program:myprogram]
command=gunicorn --worker-class socketio.sgunicorn.GeventSocketIOWorker app.wsgi:application -b 127.0.0.1:8000
directory=/opt/myprogram
user=user1
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=True

Visit http://supervisord.org/configuration.html#program-x-section-values for more information