diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index 38d37a11..c0058e56 100644
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
 cd /vagrant/
 
 sudo pip install --upgrade pip
+
+# Pip moved location after upgrade from 1.0
 sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/bin/pip 2>/dev/null
 
 sudo apt-get -y install libmysqlclient-dev 
@@ -23,21 +25,13 @@ sudo pip install --allow-external libffi-dev libffi-dev
 #TODO collect user input and use that to populate the passwords
 sudo apt-get -y install mysql-server-5.5
 sudo apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server
-sudo apt-get -y install python-xmpp 
+#sudo apt-get -y install python-xmpp 
 
 sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
 
+chmod +x *.sh
 
-# TODO Extract the rest of this file to separate shell script
-
-
-
-## comment out bootstrap_permissions() before sync, as per instructions
-#cp groupmanagement/__init__.py groupmanagement/__init__.py.bak
-#sed "s/bootstrap_permissions()/#bootstrap_permissions()/" groupmanagement/__init__.py.bak > groupmanagement/__init__.py
-#python manage.py syncdb
-#mv groupmanagement/__init__.py.bak groupmanagement/__init__.py
-
-#python manage.py celeryd --verbosity=2 --loglevel=DEBUG
-#python manage.py celerybeat --verbosity=2 --loglevel=DEBUG
-#python manage.py runserver
\ No newline at end of file
+echo '--------'
+echo 'This would be a good point to adjust mysql passwords, as well as all the stuff '
+echo 'in ./alliance_auth/settings.py otherwise startup.sh will not work.'
+echo '--------'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 278d06f7..9a87a129 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ mysql-python
 
 dnspython
 passlib
+xmpppy==0.5.0rc1
 
 # Django Stuff #
 django==1.6.1
diff --git a/run_alliance_corp_update.py b/run_alliance_corp_update.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c41709f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_alliance_corp_update.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from util import bootstrap_permissions
+from celerytask.tasks import run_alliance_corp_update
+
+bootstrap_permissions()
+run_alliance_corp_update()
+quit()
diff --git a/shutdown.sh b/shutdown.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4743ed09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shutdown.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+ps ww | grep 'manage.py' | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
diff --git a/startup.sh b/startup.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..54999021
--- /dev/null
+++ b/startup.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# TODO route log output to file.
+python manage.py syncdb
+
+python manage.py shell < run_alliance_corp_update.py
+
+python manage.py celeryd --verbosity=2 --loglevel=DEBUG &
+python manage.py celerybeat --verbosity=2 --loglevel=DEBUG &
+
+python manage.py runserver &