sps won't stop running

[Eric Halil]

Hi,

I have a shell script which needs to see if a process is running and if not
restart it.  I check to see if the process is running using the following
line

  if sps w | grep -v grep | grep "$PROCESS" >/dev/null 2>&1
  then
	  :
  else
	  $PROCESS &
  fi

where $PROCESS contains the process name.

The problem is that occasionally sps doesn't stop running! It just keeps
going and going--I need to kill it to stop it. A sps on the runaway sps 
process shows it's status as RUN. Can anyone explain whats going on??

Thanks,
Eric.
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