How do I get my Golang web server to run in the background?

Question

I have recently completed the Wiki web development tutorial (http://golang.org/doc/articles/wiki/). I had tons of fun and I would like to experiment more with the n

Answer 1

Ubuntu? Use upstart.

Create a file in /etc/init for your job, named your-service-name.conf

start on net-device-up
exec /path/to/file --option

You can use start your-service-name, as well as: stop, restart, status