Or the shorter form:

        ps -ef| egrep '(dsm)serv' | wc -l

The (dsm)serv regular expression matches the "dsmserv" string in the ps entry 
for dsmserv, but not the "(dsm)serv" string in the ps entry for egrep.

Either way, egrep or grep|grep -v grep is better than the plain grep | wc -l, 
since grep doesn't always match itself (one of my systems it's about an 80% hit 
rate; it depends on the number of processors, system load, etc.)

 Scotty

-- 
Scotty Logan <swl AT stanford DOT edu>
Scotty Logan <swl AT stanford DOT edu>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> Behalf Of
> Bill Maloney
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:21
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Check for Process
> 
> 
> FYI..
>  
> To weed out the grep process:
>  
> ps -eaf | grep dsmserv | grep -v grep | wc -l
>  
>  
> 
>       -----Original Message----- 
>       From: Charles Anderson 
>       Sent: Thu 10/11/2001 2:59 PM 
>       To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
>       Cc: 
>       Subject: Re: Check for Process
>       
>       
> 
>       Geoffrey,
>       
>       here ya go in bash ( I'm afraid I'm NT illiterate, so I dunno
> how much help this will be )
>       -Ed Anderson
>       
>       #!/usr/local/bin/bash
>       # BEGIN  /root/bin/runTSMSERVyoubastard.bash
>       #===============
>       # Check for dsmserv running on solaris  / True SysV
>       #===============
>       
>       DATE=`date`
>       PATHTODSMSERV="/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv"
>       ISRUNNING=`ps -aef | grep dsmserv | wc -l`
>        # Should be 2, one for the real process and one for the "grep
> dsmserv" process
>       
>       if ( "$ISRUNNING == "2" ); then
>          exit
>       else
>          nohup $PATHTODSMSERV
>          mail -s "TSM SERVER WAS RESTARTED ON $DATE"
> your-address AT your.domain DOT com [email protected]
>       fi  
>       
>       #END
>       
>       add this to your crontab for the root user
>       1  16-7   *  *  *  /root/bin/runTSMSERVyoubastard.bash
>       
>       short sweet and to the point,
>       ed
>       
>       
>       >>> GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM 10/11/01 01:47PM >>>
>       I'd like to know if anyone has a script that will do the
> following. Cron
>       would check once an hour from 4PM to 7 AM and see if the TSM
> server is up
>       and running. If not to restart it. I had a problem last night
> and the
>       operators didn't check backups for 6 hours and most were missed
> because TSM
>       crashed.
>       
>       I'm sure this is easy to do, but my brain is mush from migrating
> TSM to a
>       different production server and upgrading to 4.2.1. After the
> upgrade it
>       crashed so most backups were missed. I can't erly on operations
> to check
>       backups, even though they're supposed to.
>       
>       Geoff Gill
>       TSM Administrator
>       NT Systems Support Engineer
>       SAIC
>       E-Mail:   gillg AT saic DOT com
>       Phone:  (858) 826-4062
>       Pager:   (888) 997-9614
>       
> 
>