---
name: "celeryd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-celery-common"
version: "3.1.23-7"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/celeryd"
---

# celeryd(1)

Celery Worker Daemon

## NAME

celeryd — Celery Worker Daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**celeryd** \[**-c** *processes\]  \[***-f** *logfile\]  \[***-l** *loglevel\]  \[***-n** *hostname\]  \[***-B***\]  \[***-E***\]  \[***--discard***\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **celeryd** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**celeryd** is a program that starts the   Celery Worker Daemon.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of  options is included below.

- **-c** **--concurrency**

  Number of child processes processing the queue. The default is the number of CPUs available on your system.

- **-f** **--logfile**

  Path to log file. If no logfile is specified, stderr is used.

- **-l** **--loglevel**

  Logging level, choose between DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, or FATAL.

- **-n** **--hostname**

  Set custom hostname.

- **-B** **--beat**

  Also run the celerybeat periodic task scheduler. Please note that there must only be one instance of this service.

- **-E** **--events**

  Send events that can be captured by monitors like celerymon.

- **--discard**

  Discard all waiting tasks before the daemon is started.   WARNING: This is unrecoverable, and the tasks will be deleted from the messaging server.

## SEE ALSO

celerybeat (1), celeryctl (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by fladi FladischerMichael@fladi.at for  the **Debian** system (and may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.