go-daemon | Utility to daemonize '' Go programs

go-daemon is a C library. go-daemon has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However go-daemon has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

Go daemon (or just god) is a utility to "daemonize" Go programs that originally only run in foreground and write logs to the console. Go daemon can turn these programs into daemons by managing essential aspects of their execution. The process of making a program become a daemon has very peculiar steps and can be done outside the code. This is what god is for. It executes a program for you doing things that daemons do: switch to another user and group, switch the directory of execution, detach from the terminal and create a pid file. While the program runs, god consumes its output (stdout and stderr) and write to a log file using minimum system resources. It also handles all signals (SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc) and forward them to the program being managed. On SIGHUP, god recycles its log file making it easy to integrate with logrotate. If SIGHUP is not supported by your program, god can handle the signal itself and not forward it, making your program immune to hangups. Go daemon is inspired by twistd, but primarily for running servers written in the Go Programming Language that don't (or just can't) care about daemonizing. However, it can also be used for running php, python and any other type of long lived programs that need to be daemonized.