diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index de5a1d47..a0ccbc16 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Version 2.00.0 (2012-06-29 11:21:59) dev
+Version 2.00.0 (2012-06-29 20:55:40) dev
diff --git a/scripts/setup-scheduler-centos.sh b/scripts/setup-scheduler-centos.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec21525b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/setup-scheduler-centos.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Author: Tyrone Hattingh
+# web2py issue: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=867
+#
+# 1) vi web2py-scheduler
+# 2) Paste in the above
+# 3) Add in the following 2 lines in the web2py-scheduler file
+#    (required for centos i believe):
+#
+#  # chkconfig: 2345 90 10
+#  # description: web2py-scheduler
+#
+# 4) make it executable with 
+#
+#  chmod 755 web2py-scheduler
+#
+# 5) add it to startup with 
+#
+#  chkconfig --add web2py-scheduler
+#
+
+DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/python
+PARAMETERS="/var/www/html/web2py/web2py.py -K init"
+LOGFILE=/var/log/web2py-scheduler.log
+
+start() {
+    echo -n "starting up $DAEMON"
+    RUN=`$DAEMON $PARAMETERS > $LOGFILE 2>&1`
+    if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo " Done."
+    else
+        echo " FAILED."
+    fi
+}
+stop() {
+    killall $DAEMON
+}
+status() {
+    killall -0 $DAEMON
+    if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "Running."
+    else
+        echo "Not Running."
+    fi
+}
+case "$1" in
+    start)
+    start
+    ;;
+    restart)
+    stop
+    sleep 2
+    start
+    ;;
+    stop)
+    stop
+    ;;
+    status)
+    status
+    ;;
+    *)
+    echo "usage : $0 start|restart|stop|status"
+    ;;
+esac
+exit 0
+