How do you run supervisord in foreground?

Question

Is there a way to run supervisord itself in foreground mode? or is there another application that can run/supervise multiple applications and shut them down when itself receives a SIGTERM or equivalent.

Answer 1

From the supervisord man page:

 -n, --nodaemon     Run supervisord in the foreground.

Answer 2

Take a look at runit: http://smarden.org/runit/ I am using it for several years now.