running celery as daemon using supervisor is not working

Question

I have a django app in which it has a celery functionality, so i can able to run the celery sucessfully like below

celery -A tasks worker --loglevel=info

but as a known fact that we need to run it as a daemon and so i have written the below celery.conf file inside /etc/supervisor/conf.d/ folder

; ==================================
;  celery worker supervisor example
; ==================================

[program:celery]
; Set full path to celery program if using virtualenv
command=/root/Envs/proj/bin/celery -A app.tasks worker --loglevel=info

user=root
environment=C_FORCE_ROOT="yes"
environment=HOME="/root",USER="root"
directory=/root/apps/proj/structure
numprocs=1
stdout_logfile=/var/log/celery/worker.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/celery/worker.log
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=10

; Need to wait for currently executing tasks to finish at shutdown.
; Increase this if you have very long running tasks.
stopwaitsecs = 600

; When resorting to send SIGKILL to the program to terminate it
; send SIGKILL to its whole process group instead,
; taking care of its children as well.
killasgroup=true

; if rabbitmq is supervised, set its priority higher
; so it starts first
priority=998

but when i tried to update the supervisor like supervisorctl reread and supervisorctl update i was getting the message from supervisorctl status

celery                           FATAL      Exited too quickly (process log may have details)

So i went to worker.log file and seen the error message as below

Running a worker with superuser privileges when the
worker accepts messages serialized with pickle is a very bad idea!

If you really want to continue then you have to set the C_FORCE_ROOT
environment variable (but please think about this before you do).

User information: uid=0 euid=0 gid=0 egid=0

So why it was complaining about C_FORCE_ROOT even though we had set it as environment variable inside supervisor conf file ? what am i doing wrong in the above conf file ?

Answer 1

You'll need to run celery with a non superuser account, Please remove following lines from your config:

user=root
environment=C_FORCE_ROOT="yes"
environment=HOME="/root",USER="root"

And the add these lines to your config, I assume that you use django as a non superuser and developers as the user group:

user=django
group=developers

Note that subprocesses will inherit the environment variables of the shell used to start supervisord except for the ones overridden here and within the program’s environment option. See supervisord documents.

So Please note that when you change environment variables via supervisor config files, Changes won't apply by running supervisorctl reread and supervisorctl reload . You should run supervisor from the very start by following command:

supervisord -c /path/to/config/file.conf