David Robley wrote:

> The OS will take care of this by firing up another instance of
> your script. All you need to do is be aware of the possibility of
> multiple instances doing ?things? at around the same time and make sure
> that you don't have say several instances all writing to the same file at
> the same time - use locking where it is not provided by the tool you are
> using.

    About the only worry I have there is the interaction with the database
itself.  If two scripts start accessing the db for writing at the same time,
I can smell trouble, yes.

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