How to pass date (or in general the result of a shell script) to command in supervisord

Question

I have a program that needs to run repeatedly. Now, I use supervisord's autorestart to do that. Currently I have:

command=myprogram --output-file=logfile.log

I want something like:

command=myprogram --output-file=logfile_%(date)s.log

which specifies an output-file as logfile_2015_08_13.log, except that supervisord only supports %(program_name)s, %(process_num)02d, etc.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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Supervisord supports more than just %(program_name)s, %(process_num)02d. You could pick you environment variables:Supervisord Environment

However I don't think you could pass shell commands in supervisord configuration. I would do something like this:

Write a shell script and call your program with the date command. Lets save it as run.sh

#!/bin/bash
myprogram --output-file=logfile_`date +%Y-%m-%d`

Pass your shell script as command to supervisord

command=/path/to/run.sh

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Aug 13 '15 at 08:03

Mangat Rai Modi

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Thanks. This is probably the easiest (if not the only) way to do it now. – foresightyj Aug 13 '15 at 10:11

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