Re: trying to write my own herd service

[EuAndreh]

> >          (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
> >                    (list
> >                     (string-append
> > #$go-github-com-KefirTheAutomator-daemon "/bin/daemon")
> >                     " -pidFile=/var/run/my-daemon.pid"
> >                     " -logFile=/var/log/my-daemon.log")))

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> Your process probably dies too often, thus causing shepherd to disable
> it.

I'd guess that it is dying too often because it is failing to be launched.  The
extra spaces before the "-pidFile" and "-logFile" arguments aren't ignored, like
when in a shell, but are included explicitly.  A contrived equivalent example
is:

    $ ls -l
    total 36
    drwxr-xr-x  6 andreh users 4096 Nov  4 19:42 Desktop
    drwxr-xr-x  7 andreh users 4096 Oct 31 21:07 Documents
    ...
    $ ls '-l'
    total 36
    drwxr-xr-x  6 andreh users 4096 Nov  4 19:42 Desktop
    drwxr-xr-x  7 andreh users 4096 Oct 31 21:07 Documents
    ...
    $ ls ' -l'
    ls: cannot access ' -l': No such file or directory

I believe that a similar thing is happening to the options to your program, and
it is failing to execute because of that.  You could confirm it by looking that
the logs.