How to stop gunicorn properly

To see the processes is ps ax|grep gunicorn and to stop gunicorn_django is pkill gunicorn.

One option would be to use Supervisor to manage Gunicorn.

Then again i don't see why you can't kill the process via Fabric. Assuming you let Gunicorn write a pid file you could easily read that file in a Fabric command.

Something like this should work:

run("kill `cat /path/to/your/file/gunicorn.pid`")