Starting up and Monitoring a Golang binary in production

_.sh

# Make it executable
sudo chmod +x etc/init.d/myapp
# Try it:
sudo service myapp start
# Make it run upon boot:
sudo update-rc.d myapp defaults

init.sh

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/myapp
#
USER="user"
GOPATH="/path/to/apps/go"
GOROOT="$GOPATH"
WORKDIR="$GOPATH/bin/"


# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
  start)
    cd "$WORKDIR"
    echo "Start Golang script"
    export GOPATH="$GOPATH"
    export PATH="${PATH}:${GOROOT}/bin:${GOPATH}/bin"
    #/bin/su -m -l $USER -c "nohup ./myapp > $WORKDIR/myapp.log 2>&1 & echo $! > /path/to/apps/pids/myapp.pid"
    /bin/su -m -l $USER -c "nohup ./myapp > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $! > /path/to/apps/pids/myapp.pid"
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stop Golang script"
    kill -9 `cat /path/to/apps/pids/myapp.pid`
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/myapp {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

revel.sh

http://wiki.colar.net/golang_revel_init_script#.VIOVo4vufdk
#! /bin/bash
# Go/Revel server init script - Thibaut Colar.

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:       gosway
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:  2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:   0 1 6
# Short-Description: gosway
### END INIT INFO

USER="ubuntu" # User we wil run Go as
GOPATH="/data/go" # GOPATH
GOROOT="/data/go/go" # used by revel
GO_CMD="revel run gosway" # here I use revel but could just use "go"
WORKDIR="/data/go/src/gosway"
NAME="gosway" # app name for ogs etc ...

###### Start script ########################################################

recursiveKill() { # Recursively kill a process and all subprocesses
    CPIDS=$(pgrep -P $1);
    for PID in $CPIDS
    do
        recursiveKill $PID
    done
    sleep 3 && kill -9 $1 2>/dev/null & # hard kill after 3 seconds
    kill $1 2>/dev/null # try soft kill first
}

case "$1" in
      start)
        echo "Starting $NAME ..."
        if [ -f "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid" ]
        then
            echo "Already running according to $WORKDIR/$NAME.pid"
            exit 1
        fi
        cd "$WORKDIR"
  export GOROOT="$GOROOT"
  export GOPATH="$GOPATH"
  export PATH="${PATH}:${GOROOT}/bin:${GOPATH}/bin"
        /bin/su -m -l $USER -c "$GO_CMD" > "$WORKDIR/$NAME.log" 2>&1 &
        PID=$!
        echo $PID > "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid"
        echo "Started with pid $PID - Logging to $WORKDIR/$NAME.log" && exit 0
        ;;
      stop)
        echo "Stopping $NAME ..."
        if [ ! -f "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid" ]
        then
            echo "Already stopped!"
            exit 1
        fi
        PID=`cat "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid"`
        recursiveKill $PID
        rm -f "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid"
        echo "stopped $NAME" && exit 0
        ;;
      restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 1
        $0 start
        ;;
      status)
        if [ -f "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid" ]
        then
            PID=`cat "$WORKDIR/$NAME.pid"`
            if [ "$(/bin/ps --no-headers -p $PID)" ]
            then
                echo "$NAME is running (pid : $PID)" && exit 0
            else
                echo "Pid $PID found in $WORKDIR/$NAME.pid, but not running." && exit 1
            fi
        else
            echo "$NAME is NOT running" && exit 1
        fi
    ;;
      *)
      echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|restart|status}" && exit 1
      ;;
esac

exit 0