Not really on-topic but I noticed your grep -v grep and thought you
might like;

ps -ef | grep [d]smserv

will do the same!


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Matthew Warren.
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matthew_j_warren AT hotmail DOT com
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: 11 November 2005 18:20
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Smart reboot for tsm server under solaris


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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