go-daemon

A daemon package for use with Go services without any dependencies (except for golang.org/x/sys/windows)

Features

• Use install and uninstall service file on Linux (SystemD, SystemV, UpStart), MacOS and FreeBSD
• More control: start, stop, restart, reload for all supported OS and pause and continue for Windows
• Unified interface for all supported OS

Install

go get -u github.com/nsemikov/go-daemon@latest

Usage

Create config for daemon:

cfg := daemon.NewConfig(
  daemon.WithName("cmd_example"),
  daemon.WithDescription("Command Line daemon example"),
  daemon.WithStartHdlr(start),
  daemon.WithStopHdlr(stop),
  // add more options if you need
)

Create daemon:

d, err := daemon.New(cfg)

And then run it:

err = d.Run()

See the examples directory for more complete examples.