I am trying to get an rpc server session running in the background but when I disconnect from the system it dies. Using a crontab entry comes to mind but I do not know what to look for in the ps -ale. 

I was about to ask the same question.  My old methods are not working now.

Thanks Devon, that put us in business.

We have just updated our pvx odbc and sql svr from 6.00 to 6.10 and now we are requierds to have a catalog defined for sql svr. Trouble is we have never defined a catalog before. If my providex.ddf is in directory /z/abcd how do we define a catalog that will use that and let the pxpsqlsvr run again?

Any recommendations for starting and controlling the 'CALL "*rpsrvr",15000' on the remote system?