This is a supervisor script for running DCMTK listener application in background .

dcmtk_listener.conf

[program:dcmtk_listener]
command=storescp 5555 -aet app -xcs '. /home/ubuntu/virtual-env/app/bin/activate; cd /home/ubuntu/app/; python manage.py add_dicom #p'  --log-config /home/ubuntu/app/dcmtk_log_config.txt -od /home/ubuntu/app/dicoms/ -su ah -tos 30 --accept-all -fe '.dcm'

environment=C_FORCE_ROOT=true

user=ubuntu
numprocs=1
stdout_logfile=/var/log/dcmtk_listener/access.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/dcmtk_listener/error.log
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=10
stopwaitsecs=300
killasgroup=true