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+[Unit]
+Description=Dark Sky Weather API service
+ConditionPathExists=/root/go/src/weather-api
+After=network.target
+ 
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=weatherapi
+Group=weatherapi
+LimitNOFILE=1024
+
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=10
+startLimitIntervalSec=60
+
+WorkingDirectory=/root/go/src/weather-api
+ExecStart=/root/go/src/weather-api/weather-api
+
+# make sure log directory exists and owned by syslog
+PermissionsStartOnly=true
+ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/log/weatherapi
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chown syslog:adm /var/log/weatherapi
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod 755 /var/log/weatherapi
+StandardOutput=syslog
+StandardError=syslog
+SyslogIdentifier=weatherapi
+ 
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
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