To manage starting, logging, etc. of Gotify, systemd can be used.

This is only a minimal example and does not provide the most secure or "best" way to run gotify. Please adjust the config to your needs.

Installation

For this example, Gotify is installed by root in a directory called /opt/gotify/ and the executable in there is called gotify. The config file will be /etc/gotify/config.yml using relative paths as in the example and the service will be run as root. A file called /opt/gotify/gotify.service should be created by root containing:

[Unit]
Description=Gotify
Requires=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/opt/gotify
ExecStart=/opt/gotify/gotify
StandardOutput=append:/var/log/gotify/gotify.log
StandardError=append:/var/log/gotify/gotify-error.log
Restart=always
RestartSec=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then the following commands enable systemd to start Gotify at boot:

sudo mkdir /var/log/gotify
sudo chmod -R go-rw /opt/gotify /etc/gotify/config.yml /var/log/gotify
sudo ln -s /opt/gotify/gotify.service /etc/systemd/system/gotify.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable gotify

Start

Gotify can then be started manually with:

sudo systemctl start gotify
sudo systemctl status gotify
sudo tail /var/log/gotify/gotify.log