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

I believe Solaris 7+ has this little tool which might be useful to you:

pgrep <process name>

And it's twin:

pkill <process name>

Both accept the same arguments.  The '-U' option is nice if you need to
search by user.
HTH!

Chris Murphy
IT Resource Analyst - Enterprise Architecture 
Institute for Defense Analyses

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