service-tools

A growing collection of convenient little tools to work with systemd services

Installation

The service-tools require Go 1.11 or higher. Make sure you have a working Go environment. See the install instructions.

From source

git clone https://github.com/muesli/service-tools.git
cd service-tools/service-generator
go build
cd ../service-monitor
go build

Overview

service-generator

A tool to generate systemd Unit files (newthing.service)

To generate a new service file non-interactively simply call:

$ service-generator create /path/to/executable "Some description"

If you prefer a terminal UI, you can launch it with just an executable or no arguments at all:

$ service-generator create

service-monitor

A monitor for systemd Units

$ service-monitor logs

$ service-monitor services

See --help for all commands and options.