howto.txt

Save the supervisord.initscript script as /etc/init.d/supervisord
Run /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f supervisord defaults

supervisord.initscript

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          supervisor
# Required-Start:    $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $syslog
# Should-Start:      $local_fs
# Should-Stop:       $local_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts/stops the supervisor daemon
# Description:       This starts and stops the supervisor dameon
#                    which is used to run and monitor arbitrary programs as
#                    services, e.g. application servers etc.
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="supervisor daemon"
NAME="supervisor"
DAEMON="/usr/bin/${NAME}d"
SUPERVISORCTL="/usr/bin/${NAME}ctl"
PIDFILE="/var/run/${NAME}d.pid"
SCRIPTNAME="/etc/init.d/$NAME"
CONFFILE="/etc/${NAME}d.conf"

test -x "$DAEMON" || exit 0
test -r "$CONFFILE" || exit 0

if [ -r "/etc/default/$NAME" ]; then
    . "/etc/default/$NAME"
fi

set -e

d_start() {
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE" \
        --exec "$DAEMON" \
        || echo -n " already running"
}

d_stop() {
    $SUPERVISORCTL shutdown
}

d_reload() {
    $SUPERVISORCTL reload
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
    d_start
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
    d_stop
    echo "."
    ;;
  reload|force-reload)
    echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration..."
    d_reload
    echo "done."
  ;;
  restart)
    echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
    d_stop
    sleep 1
    d_start
    echo "."
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: "$SCRIPTNAME" {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
    exit 3
    ;;
esac

exit 0