awk & shell variables

From: Suhas (sgtembe_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/30/03 

Date: 30 Jul 2003 14:26:48 -0700

Hello Everyone,

Here is what I am trying to do & maybe you guys can throw some light,
since I am not able to figure it out. I have shell script that
contains the following:

DB_DIR=/test/data
DB_NAME=custom
UID=root

ps -ef | awk '$1 == "'"${UID}"'" && $9 ~ /_mprosrv
"'"${DB_DIR}"'"'/'"'"${DB_NAME}"'"/'

# I know that the above syntax is incorrect, since I am getting
errors.

Basically, I am trying to check for a process that has the UID (1st
column) as "root" & the 9th column contains "_mprosrv
/test/data/custom".

Thanks in advance.
Suhas

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