I've got a follow up post that shows how to use upstart instead of init to manage supervisor http://cuppster.com/2011/05/18/using-supervisor-with-upstart http:/

I've got a follow up post that shows how to use upstart instead of init to manage supervisor http://cuppster.com/2011/05/18/using-supervisor-with-upstart http://cuppster.com/2011/05/18/using-supervisor-with-upstart People were having issues with the init script gist... upstart simplifies things quite a bit.