| Description: | This script can be used to start/stop/restart xotcl daemons
      and maintains the process IDs, log files and means for easy 
      restart. 
      It receives as first parameter the name of the xotcl script
      to be executed followed by the desired action and optional 
      parameters. The specified action can be
       
      The optional parameters are: start: the specified script is started in 
         the background, an entry to restart is generated in 
         the run-directory as well as the process id of the started 
         script. In addition a logfile is created in the log directory.
         If the start of the script fails, the error messages are 
         shown.
       startall: all scripts that were started before 
         via this script, are started
       stop terminates te specified script.
       stopall terminates all scripts started via this
         command
       restart tries to restart the specified script.
       
       -logir specifies the directory for logging.
            The default is ~/.xotcl/log.
       -rundir specifies the directory where 
            the information about the running processes is kept.
            The default is ~/.xotcl/run.
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