supervisord (3.0) service script for standard ubuntu installation. To be installed in /etc/init.d/supervisord. Make sure you chmod +x /etc/init.d/supervisord after writing

supervisord

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          supervisord
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $networking
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $networking
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts supervisord - see http://supervisord.org
# Description:       Starts and stops supervisord as needed - see http://supervisord.org
### END INIT INFO

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
NAME=supervisord
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/$NAME   # Supervisord is installed in /usr/bin by default, but /usr/sbin would make more sense.
SUPERVISORCTL=/usr/local/bin/supervisorctl
CONFIG_PATH=/etc/supervisord.conf
PIDFILE=/tmp/$NAME.pid
DAEMON_ARGS="--pidfile ${PIDFILE} --configuration=${CONFIG_PATH}"
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $NAME"
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been started
        #   1 if daemon was already running
        #   2 if daemon could not be started
        [ -e $PIDFILE ] && return 1

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
                $DAEMON_ARGS \
                || return 2
        # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
        # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
        # on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping $NAME"
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been stopped
        #   1 if daemon was already stopped
        #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
        #   other if a failure occurred
        [ -e $PIDFILE ] || return 1

        # Stop all processes under supervisord control.
        $SUPERVISORCTL stop all

        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
        RETVAL="$?"
        [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
        # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
        # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
        # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
        # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
        # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
        # sleep for some time.
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
        [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
        # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
        rm -f $PIDFILE
        return "$RETVAL"
}

#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
#
do_reload() {
        #
        # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
        # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
        # then implement that here.
        #
        start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
        return 0
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        do_start
        case "$?" in
                0|1) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;
  stop)
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
                0|1) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                2) log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;
  #reload|force-reload)
        #
        # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
        # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
        #
        #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $NAME"
        #do_reload
        #log_end_msg $?
        #;;
  restart|force-reload)
        #
        # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
        # 'force-reload' alias
        #
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $NAME"
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
          0|1)
                do_start
                case "$?" in
                        0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                        1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
                        *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
                esac
                ;;
          *)
                  # Failed to stop
                log_end_msg 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
  *)
        #echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
        echo "Usage: service $NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

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