Here is what I am trying to do in sh. I am familiar with cron. I just want script #1 to run from the command prompt and script #2 to run from cron. I will try ZZamboni's suggestion. 
Script #1 start the server and grab the process ID.
nohup /local/silverstream/bin/SilverServer -nodbcheck &
SIL=$! > Silverprocess
echo $SIL
bash-2.03# cat logger.sh 
kill -9 $SIL

Script #2 kill the process and grab the log file
mv log2  /local/home/admin/log2"`date|sed s/\ /_/g`"
touch log2
chmod 644 log2
chown root log2
chgrp other log2

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