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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright 2011 OpenStack LLC.
+# All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+import eventlet
+eventlet.monkey_patch()
+
+import gettext
+import optparse
+import os
+import sys
+
+
+gettext.install('reddwarf', unicode=1)
+
+
+# If ../reddwarf/__init__.py exists, add ../ to Python search path, so that
+# it will override what happens to be installed in /usr/(local/)lib/python...
+possible_topdir = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]),
+    os.pardir,
+    os.pardir))
+if os.path.exists(os.path.join(possible_topdir, 'reddwarf', '__init__.py')):
+    sys.path.insert(0, possible_topdir)
+
+from reddwarf import version
+from reddwarf.common import config
+from reddwarf.common import service
+from reddwarf.db import db_api
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = optparse.OptionParser(version="%%prog %s"
+    % version.version_string())
+    config.add_common_options(parser)
+    config.add_log_options(parser)
+
+    (options, args) = config.parse_options(parser)
+    try:
+        conf, app = config.Config.load_paste_app('reddwarf-taskmanager',
+                                                 options, args)
+        db_api.configure_db(conf)
+
+        server = service.Service.create(binary='reddwarf-taskmanager',
+                                        manager='reddwarf.taskmanager.manager.TaskManager',
+                                        topic="mgmt-taskmanager")
+        service.serve(server)
+        service.wait()
+    except RuntimeError as error:
+        import traceback
+        print traceback.format_exc()
+        sys.exit("ERROR: %s" % error)