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This is is because the port ECF_PORT was generated by the python script and would not typically correspond to your servers port.Additionally the
The ECF_PASSWD variable was also is used to detect zombies. This was generated by the python script and not the server, hence job will be treated as a zombie, in the case where the ECF_PORT matched.
Regardless of how the job was generated, i.e via python script or by the ecflow server, we need a way of checking the job independent of ecFlow.
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