This is an exploratory message just to reassure myself that I am thinking 
correctly.

We have tsm server v5.2.4 running under solaris 8.

I would like to do a weekly reboot of the server, but during a time period of 
no activity.

My logic is as follows:

Have an administrative schedule check for processes and sessions.
If no backup or restore sessions are active, and no processes running, halt the 
server.

While this is going on, a cron job checks for the existance of the dsmserv 
process.  When this process disappears, clear itself from crontab, and reboot.

Does this sound correct?
Also, is there a betterr way to check for a process than 
"ps -ef |grep process name"?

Thanks for the help.

Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
 

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