> Lesley - You don't specify, but I would assume that your
> system boot initiation files invoke the TSM server,

Yes.  The startup script claimed it didn't come up.

> which would account for the prior
> instance.  Though that initial instance was either delayed or
> non-functional
> (you could not enter into an administrative session) the
> process itself would be
> there.  In dropping the operating system to single user mode
> that should have
> disposed of the stifled initial process.

Well, I thought I checked that.  I created the startup script and don't
entirely trust it yet so I'm pretty sure I did "ps -ef|grep dsm" to see if
it was in fact already running.  But it's not in my .bash_history so I guess
I'll never know.

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Lesley Walker
Lesley Walker
Unix Engineering, EDS New Zealand
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"I feel that there is a world market for as many as five computers"
    Thomas Watson, IBM corp. - 1943