diff --git a/hivesterix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh b/hivesterix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
index 6aa9161..cddf9a4 100644
--- a/hivesterix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
+++ b/hivesterix-dist/src/main/resources/scripts/startCluster.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
 bin/startcc.sh
 sleep 5
 bin/startAllNCs.sh
-
-. conf/cluster.properties
-# do we need to specify the version somewhere?
-hyrackcmd=`ls ${HYRACKS_HOME}/hyracks-cli/target/hyracks-cli-*-binary-assembly/bin/hyrackscli`
-# find zip file
-appzip=`ls $PWD/../hivesterix-dist-*-binary-assembly.zip`
-
-[ -f $hyrackcmd ] || { echo "Hyracks commandline is missing"; exit -1;}
-[ -f $appzip ] || { echo "Genomix binary-assembly.zip is missing"; exit -1;}
-
-CCHOST_NAME=`cat conf/master`
-
-IPADDR=`bin/getip.sh`
-echo "connect to \"${IPADDR}:${CC_CLIENTPORT}\"; create application hivesterix \"$appzip\";" | $hyrackcmd 
-echo ""
-