⚠️ We created this repository in June 2024 as a fork of https://github.com/kardianos/service because, at the time, we felt the project was not being maintained (the latest commit at the time was from February 2023 and our question about the project's status went unanswered for a couple of weeks. The project seems to be active again so we are archiving this fork.

service

service will install / un-install, start / stop, and run a program as a service (daemon). Currently supports Windows XP+, Linux/(systemd | Upstart | SysV), and OSX/Launchd.

Windows controls services by setting up callbacks that is non-trivial. This is very different then other systems. This package provides the same API despite the substantial differences. It also can be used to detect how a program is called, from an interactive terminal or from a service manager.

BUGS

• Dependencies field is not implemented for Linux systems and Launchd.
• OS X when running as a UserService Interactive will not be accurate.