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[Steve Manes]

At 12:01 PM 12/20/2002 -0500, Brian wrote:
>That is a great idea.  I could keep it simple and just check for the 
>existence
>of the file.  When I want to kill the script, I delete the file.  Before
>invoking it again I just upload the file again.

You could also do what Unix daemon wrappers do: write the PID to a 
'run.pid' file.  A separate kill script would read that file and send the 
appropriate kill signal to the PID.  This would eliminate the overhead and 
latency of periodically re-reading a control file.