flags

Documentation

Overview

Import this package to get useful flags every server should have

import (
	_ "ask.systems/daemon/tools/flags
)

Provides:

• -version which prints the module name, version and the CopyrightNotice, and for development builds prints version control information.
• -syslog and -syslog_remote which enable directly sending log package logs to the syslogd service directly for collecting all your logs together.

If you'd like to have the -version flag but exclude the syslog flags then you can compile your binary with:

go build -tags nosyslog

Index

• Variables

Variables

var CopyrightNotice string

Set this to information about your license and copyright to print in the -version flag results

Must be set before calling flag.Parse

var Syslog *syslog.Writer

Use this if you want to use the log severity methods. This is only initialized if the -syslog or the -syslog_remote flag is set and flag.Parse has been called.

Using this writer directly will not also log to stdout