Why don't you just take a "ps -ef " just before starting the GUI, and just
after.  This should give you the list of processes that need to be running.
Then try and start these by hand, see what happens...

Mark van Kerkwyk wrote:

> Does anyone know what background processes I can run which can allow me to
> use the Netview Java applets (map,events etc via Netscape ) without having
> the ovw GUI running.
>
> Is this possible at all ?
>
> To make sure that any processes which may have died get restarted properly,
> I stop and restart netview each evening via a cron job by running ovwexit
> and then ovstop and ovstart, and in turn lose this functionality until
> someone starts the gui again.
>
> Any ideas ??
>
> Mark