Restarting a different applicaiton?

I would up having to do something like this:

<cfcomponent>
     <cffile action="read"  
file="#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#application-name" 
 variable="this.name" charset="utf-8" />
     <cfscript>
         //this.name = "newride-ss23fv3-grg346";
         this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(2,0,0,0);
         this.clientmanagement= "yes";
         this.loginstorage = "session" ;

in the administration there is a manual link  and form to fill out to restart the application, basically it just  regenerates the application-name file so that when application.cfc gets  it's next request the application name has changed.

Just wondering if there are security issues or other problems that might be associated with doing things like this.

-thanks

-sean

hum. small question, I have 2 applications, one app ~administers~ the other. I can restart the admin application easily enough with onApplicationStart(); , but how can I restart the slave application???

I assume the slave application is in a subdirectory of the admin application. I also assume the slave application's Application.cfc is within that subdirectory. All that is needed is for the admin to open any cfm page in the slave application.

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