In order to do some routine server maintenance on Friday I stopped the listserv process. After completing the maintenance, I tried to restart listserv as a background process but it fails to start. I looked at the log file and it gives me the following: 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 LISTSERV(R) for unix version 1.8d starting... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 Copyright L-Soft international 1986-2000 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 SIGNUP files are being compressed... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 -> No entry removed. 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 Nearest backbone host is LISTSERV@CUNYVM 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 Nearest NJE host is LISTSERV@CUNYVM 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 Building list indexes... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 License activated: SERIAL=NYAM-14, UNITS=32 (24 in use) 11 Sep 2000 13:08:23 This license will expire on 8 Mar 2001 Error: Not a directory 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Initialization complete. 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9805... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9806... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9807... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9808... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9809... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:24 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9810... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9811... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9812... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9901... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9902... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9903... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9904... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9905... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9906... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9907... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:25 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9908... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9909... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9910... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9911... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG9912... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG0001... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG0002... 11 Sep 2000 13:08:26 Reindexing ASTHMACUES LOG0003... Why does it give an error message and why is it trying to re-index an existing list? The listserv process does not start and jobs are starting to pile up in the spool. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you. Robert *********************************************************** Robert De Angelo User Services / Unix Systems Administrator Department of Information Systems & Technology New York Academy of Medicine [log in to unmask] (212) 822-7326