diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index a658a21dbeb4b7cb2b1aac94a97ca48b42541293..40379676b30ef798d35f9b7804682a1f3cb9463e 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -5034,6 +5034,7 @@ SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentEditor/test/CMakeLists.txt -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentEditor/test/test_webservice.py -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentEditor/test/test_webservice.run -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/ResourceAssignmentEditor/test/test_webservice.sh -text
+SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/JobsToSchedule.ini -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/test/tJobsToSchedule.in_correlator -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/test/tJobsToSchedule.in_preprocessing -text
 SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/test/tJobsToSchedule.sh eol=lf
diff --git a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/CMakeLists.txt b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/CMakeLists.txt
index c6ffe8217997628c00e1452f5c8eebf566cee63d..09d2edc53666cdb73e0866a028c54d2697900265 100644
--- a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,8 @@
 lofar_add_bin_scripts(
   JobsToSchedule.py
 )
+
+# supervisord config files
+install(FILES
+  JobsToSchedule.ini
+  DESTINATION etc/supervisord.d)
diff --git a/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/JobsToSchedule.ini b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/JobsToSchedule.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a453608eb9588134b4869e31fb86aa5f86b29b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SAS/ResourceAssignment/Services/src/JobsToSchedule.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[program:JobsToSchedule]
+command=/bin/bash -c 'source $LOFARROOT/lofarinit.sh;JobsToSchedule.py --otdb_busname=lofar.otdb --my_busname=lofar.ra'
+user=lofarsys
+stopsignal=INT ; KeyboardInterrupt
+stopasgroup=true
+stdout_logfile=%(program_name)s.log
+stderr_logfile=%(program_name)s.stderr