How to start a Go program as a daemon in Ubuntu?

Question

What is the proper way to start a Go program as a daemon in Ubuntu ? I will then monitor it with Monit. Should I just do something like:

go run myapp.go &         


        

Answer 1

There is a bug report regarding the ability to daemonize from within a Go program: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=227

But if what you are after is just detaching from the process I have seen recommendations to either do one of the following:

nohup go run myapp.go

or

go run myapp.go & disown

You can also make use of a process manager, like writing an init.d, Startup, or using something like Supervisor, which I personally really like.