Supervisor is responsible for starting the gunicorn process, so it knows the PID when it starts it. Gunicorn controls its own PID file, but supervisor can send

Supervisor is responsible for starting the gunicorn process, so it knows the PID when it starts it. Gunicorn controls its own PID file, but supervisor can send it process signals. Here's my sample Supervisord conf file for gunicorn: [program:gunicorn] directory=/home/sclay/newsblur command=gunicorn_django -c config/gunicorn_conf.py user=sclay autostart=true autorestart=true #redirect_stderr=True priority=991 stopsignal=HUP Hope that helps.