The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself. In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 22.04
Handling signals from within Bash has a simple syntax and can be used to handle user interruption with Ctrl-C (SIGINT), as a cleanup hook at the end of processing (SIGEXIT), or even as a custom messaging mechanism (SIGUSR1). Trapping a signal is as easy as specifying a custom function name and the signal name as … Bash: trapping signals during script processing
Update Oct 2022: This article has now been written for GoLang 1.19 on Ubuntu 22.04. Go has changed the way it handles SIGURG signals, and Systemd services no longer directly forward to syslog. Read my newer article here. The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a systemd service on Ubuntu 16.04
The Go language with its simplicity, concurrency support, rich package ecosystem, and ability to compile down to a single binary is an attractive solution for writing services on Ubuntu. However, the Go language does not natively provide a reliable way to daemonize itself. In this article I will describe how to take a couple of simple Go language programs, … GoLang: Running a Go binary as a SysV service on Ubuntu 14.04