Lee, Gary D. wrote:
> 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.
>

one question, why?!?!? Your running on a decent OS, and TSM (at least
5.2.3.5) has been rock solid in the past year. We usually do more than 2
milion session in a run, and only reboot for OS patches and thus have to
restart TSM ;-). This is a reboot once every so many months.

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

ps -ef |grep dsmserv | grep -v grep

> Thanks for the help.
>
> Gary Lee
> Senior System Programmer
> Ball State University
>
>


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