start a background process with nohup using fabric

Question

am trying to start a celerycam process using fabric using the below nohup command. Unfortunately, nothing is happening, manually using the same command i could start the pro

Answer 1

This worked for me:

sudo('python %s/manage.py celerycam --detach --pidfile=celerycam.pid' % siteDir)

Edit: I had to make sure the pid file was removed first so this was the full code:

# Create new celerycam
sudo('rm celerycam.pid', warn_only=True)
sudo('python %s/manage.py celerycam --detach --pidfile=celerycam.pid' % siteDir)