dstart

Start a program as daemon service. for linux & mac , if you don't want to write complex systemd service file.

Will be good when use this tool together with @reboot command in crontab :) .

help

dstart -h
dstart --help

usage

dstart [options] executable [params...]

A. Option usage

1. Direct start a program

Usage of ./dstart:
  -env value
        -env key=value [-env key=value ...] (default array flags.)
  -err string
        -err error_output_file (currently overwriten file not create a new one)
  -etoo
        -etoo : redirect error output to standard output
  -in string
        -in input_file
  -out string
        -out output_file (currently overwriten file not create a new one)
  -u string
        -u username
  -wd string
        -wd working_directory

2. Start programs from a configuration file

./dstart -c config.toml

Note: The config file can be either found in working directory or application file directory.

See config.toml.example file for config example

B. Example

tail a file then write to another

./dstart -in ~/input_file -out ~/output_file -wd /usr/bin tail