Verm is a WORM (write-once, read-many) file store to make it easy to reliably store and replicate files. This script requires a 'verm' user/group to exist before running. The recommended UID/GID is 346. You can create these like so: groupadd -g 346 verm useradd -u 346 -g 346 -m -d /var/lib/verm verm The following can be used to start/stop verm automatically: /etc/rc.d/rc.local if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.verm ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.verm start fi /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.verm ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.verm stop fi NOTE: google-go-lang is only needed at compile time - not needed for runtime.