Background Process Logger

This application is used to run a program in the background and write all logs to files.

Getting Started

These instructions will help you to run this application on your local machine.

Prerequisites

• Go version 1.14 or above
• A program that you want to run in the background

Installing

• Clone the repository
• Run go build command to build the application

Running the command or application

• Run the command or application with the name of the command that you want to run in the background as the argument

./background -command=commandName

• Optionaly you can add multiple arguments to command:

./background -command=commandName -commandArgs=exampleArguments

The application will redirect the standard output and error of the command to files "/tmp/background-exec-stdout.log" and "/tmp/background-exec-stderr.log", respectively.

While running the command will also run in background and you can track the process using the process id by running ps -ef | grep commandName or pgrep -f commandName <arg1> <arg2>.

Testing

Run app with test.sh script:

go run background.go -command="./test.sh" -commandArgs="--=this 'is' example usage"

Check result:

tail -f /tmp/background-exec-stdout.log