improved the check for our own ftp server

        print "RUN: Check port $FTPPORT for our own FTP server\n"

            if ($verbose);

        my $time=time();

        # check if this is our server running on this port:

        my $data=`$CURL -m4 --silent -i ftp://$HOSTIP:$FTPPORT/verifiedserver 2>/dev/null`;

        my @data=`$CURL -m4 --silent ftp://$HOSTIP:$FTPPORT/verifiedserver 2>/dev/null`;

        my $line;

        # if this took more than 2 secs, we assume it "hung" on a weird server

        my $took = time()-$time;

        if ( $data =~ /WE ROOLZ: (\d+)/ ) {

        foreach $line (@data) {

            if ( $line =~ /WE ROOLZ: (\d+)/ ) {

                # this is our test server with a known pid!

                $pid = 0+$1;

            }

        else {

            if($data || ($took > 2)) {

        }

        if(!$pid || ($took > 2)) {

            # this is not a known server

            print "RUN: Unknown server on our favourite port: $FTPPORT\n";

            return -1;

        }

    }

    }

    if($pid > 0) {

        print "RUN: Killing a previous server using pid $pid\n" if($verbose);

    system($cmd);

    my $verified;

    $pid = 0;

    for(1 .. 10) {

        # verify that our server is up and running:

        my $data=`$CURL --silent -i ftp://$HOSTIP:$FTPPORT/verifiedserver 2>/dev/null`;

        if ( $data =~ /WE ROOLZ: (\d+)/ ) {

        my $line;

        my $cmd="$CURL --silent ftp://$HOSTIP:$FTPPORT/verifiedserver 2>/dev/null";

        print "$cmd\n" if($verbose);

        my @data = `$cmd`;

        foreach $line (@data) {

            print STDERR "We read: $_";

            if ( $line =~ /WE ROOLZ: (\d+)/ ) {

                $pid = 0+$1;

                $verified = 1;

                last;

            }

        else {

        }

        if(!$pid) {

            if($verbose) {

                print STDERR "RUN: Retrying FTP server existence in 3 sec\n";

            }

            sleep(3);

            next;

        }

        else {

            last;

        }

    }

    if(!$verified) {

        warn "RUN: failed to start our FTP server\n";