background/ticker.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package background
 
 import (
 	"math"
+	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"time"
 
@@ -18,8 +19,8 @@ const frequency = 2 * time.Hour // Figure out a sensible frequency!
 func InitTicker(cfg *helpers.Configuration, stop <-chan struct{}) {
 	go runTicker(cfg, stop)
 
-	// Run goroutine logging ticker if runtime set to debug
+	// Run goroutine logging ticker if env "perflog" is set to "on"
-	if helpers.Runtime == "debug" {
+	if os.Getenv("perflog") == "on" {
 		go goroutineTicker(stop)
 	}
 }
@@ -33,8 +34,10 @@ func runTicker(cfg *helpers.Configuration, stop <-chan struct{}) {
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-stop:
+			log.Debug("Stopping background task ticker")
 			return
 		case <-ticker.C:
+			log.Debug("Running background tasks")
 			go cif.CheckCif(cfg)
 			go corpus.CheckCorpus(cfg)
 		}

cif/check.go

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ func CheckCif(cfg *helpers.Configuration) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	log.Info("Checking age of CIF Data")
+	log.Debug("Checking age of CIF Data")
 
 	// Load and read metadata from database
 	metadata, err := dbAccess.GetCifMetadata()

main.go

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 
 func init() {
 	printStartupBanner()
-	fmt.Println("Version", helpers.Version, "\n\n")
+	fmt.Printf("Version %s \n\n", helpers.Version)
 }
 
 func main() {