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Let's say I have a number of existing workers running in supervisord. I want to add a new worker to the group as well as start the new worker. I perform the following steps:

  1. I modify the file /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf and add the new worker config
  2. Back on the command line, I enter sudo supervisorctl
  3. I run reread to read the new configuration file settings.
  4. Attempting to run start workers:exampleWorkerName gives the error workers:"exampleWorkerName": ERROR (no such process)

So, my question is, how can I start this new worker process without affecting my other existing workers? I'd rather not perform a supervisorctl reload or /etc/init.d/supervisord restart command.

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You also need to run supervisorctl update.

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Running supervisorctl update will unfortunately restart all workers. Here's a sample of the output: workers: stopped followed by workers: updated process group. The worker status shows they were all restarted. –  cballou Aug 2 '13 at 14:58
I should probably also say that I am using groups allowing me to restart all workers at once, so this might be the cause. –  cballou Aug 2 '13 at 15:22
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If you are still interested, after running

supervisorctl reread

you can try running

supervisorctl add <newWorker>
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