celery - Disable pidfile for celerybeat

Question

celeryd doesn't require a pidfile, but celerybeat seems to. Is there any way to disable it? I'm using Upstart to manage processes so using a pidfile is redundant.

Answer 1

The following seems to have worked for a few people so I'm submitting it as the answer:

python manage.py celerybeat --pidfile= --schedule=/var/my_app/celerybeat-schedule

--pidfile= (an empty string as the pidfile arg) seems to stop one being created.