From 08af4598cd88b5e22fb6a4f3554b81b59df67046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul J. Davis" Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:56:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Quick note on service monitoring. --- doc/site/deployment.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/site/deployment.rst b/doc/site/deployment.rst index ddb86d2e..02297b8b 100644 --- a/doc/site/deployment.rst +++ b/doc/site/deployment.rst @@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ the proxy_redirect directive:: Daemon Monitoring ----------------- +.. note:: + Make sure that when using either of these service monitors make sure + that you do not enable the daemon mode. These monitors expect that the + process they launch will be the process they need to monior. Daemonizing + will fork-exec which creates an unmonitored process and generally just + confuses the monitor services. + + A popular method for deploying Gunicorn is to have it monitored by runit_. An `example service`_ definition::