diff --git a/templates/application/scan_external_mounts.sh b/templates/application/scan_external_mounts.sh
index bbe29a8..3c1226b 100644
--- a/templates/application/scan_external_mounts.sh
+++ b/templates/application/scan_external_mounts.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 error_ids=""
 # Only run if this is the only instance of this script running
 # note: since this script forks to run pgrep, we need -eq 2 here
-if [[ $(pgrep -f "${0}" | wc -l) -eq 2 ]]; then
+# shellcheck disable=SC2126
+if [[ $(pgrep -a -f "${0}" | grep -v scriptherder | wc -l) -eq 2 ]]; then
 	# We sleep a deterministic amount of time, which will be between 0 an 128 m and allways the same within
 	# a specific host, but will differ between hosts
 	sleep $((16#$(ip a | grep "link/ether" | head -1 | awk -F ':' '{print $6}' | awk '{print $1}') / 2))m
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ if [[ $(pgrep -f "${0}" | wc -l) -eq 2 ]]; then
 	done
 else
 	echo "Another instance of this script is already running, exiting"
-	pgrep -a -f "${0}"
+	pgrep -a -f "${0}" | grep -v scriptherder
 	exit 0
 fi