example init.d file for starting & stopping celery within a virtualenv

haploqa-celeryd

#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: 345 95 05
# description: celery daemon configured to work with the haploqa application

# If we're invoked via SysV-style runlevel scripts we need to follow the
# link from rcX.d before working out the script name.
if [[ `dirname $0` == /etc/rc*.d ]]; then
    target="$(readlink $0)"
else
    target=$0
fi

prog="$(basename $target)"

source /var/haploqa/haploqa-venv/bin/activate
export PYTHONPATH=/var/haploqa/haploqa-webapp/src

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
    celery multi stop haploqa \
            --uid=apache --gid=apache \
            --pidfile="/var/haploqa/celery-run/%N.pid" \
            --logfile="/var/haploqa/celery-run/%N.log"
}

start() {
    echo -n $"Starting $prog: "

    celery multi start haploqa \
            --uid=apache --gid=apache \
            --pidfile="/var/haploqa/celery-run/%N.pid" \
            --logfile="/var/haploqa/celery-run/%N.log" \
            -A haploqa.haploqaapp.celery
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
    ;;

    stop)
        stop
    ;;

    restart)
        stop && start
    ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$prog {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 3
    ;;
esac

exit $?