added start and stop scripts since all this depends on persistent processes

kind of hacky though - i get the id of the python process out of stderr

mcabbernotify.py

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class Handlers(object):
 		
 
 def main():
+	print >> sys.stderr, "%d\n" % os.getpid()
 	h = Handlers()
 	notifier_init()
 	while True:

start.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+DIR=$HOME/.mcabber
+
+pidtail() {
+	tail -F $1 &
+	echo $! 1>&2
+}
+
+echo -n > $DIR/notify_pids
+(pidtail $DIR/last_event 2>> $DIR/notify_pids | python $DIR/mcabbernotify.py 2>> $DIR/notify_pids) &
+echo $! >> $DIR/notify_pids

stop.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+DIR=$HOME/.mcabber
+
+[ -f $DIR/notify_pids ] && cat $DIR/notify_pids | xargs kill && rm $DIR/notify_pids