Socket Activation for SystemD Installation $ go get github.com/lemenkov/systemd.go # ignore the following error stat github.com/lemenkov/systemd.go: no such file or directory $ Usage import "github.com/lemenkov/systemd.go" func main() { var listener net.Listener sockets, err = systemd.ListenFds() if sockets == nil { listener, err = net.ListenUnix("unix", "/tmp/servicename.socket") } else { listener, err = net.ListenFile(sockets[0]) } if err != nil { log.Fatalf("error setting up socket: %s", err) } // TODO: Set up your HTTP handlers here. http.Serve(listener, http.DefaultServeMux) }