The setting "Send= Editor,Hold" and the situation of a list being on "hold" are completely unrelated. See http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/owner-faq.stm#1 for what to do when a list is on hold. Also, what was the rest of that error? There should have been several more lines explaining what the problem was. Nathan At 09:48 AM 2/9/2004 -0800, you wrote: >We are using 1.8e in Solaris 7. It just happened few days ago when all >the posts to a list got queued in ~spool. I viewed a particular queued >with jobview and see the header: > ><HDR1>1 M ECON-FACULTY $NOJOB$ *MAILER* INCOMING MAIL ><HDR2> >Received: (from root@localhost) > by weber2.sscnet.ucla.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i180jkxI027150 > for [log in to unmask]; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:45:46 > >The log showed: > >9 Feb 2004 01:17:20 From [ANONYMOUS]@LISTSERV.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU: LIST AVAIL >9 Feb 2004 01:17:56 Processing file 234097 from >[log in to unmask] >9 Feb 2004 01:17:56 To [log in to unmask]: The distribution of your >message dated Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:17:52 -0800 (PST) (...) > >the user received: > >The distribution of your message dated Sat, 07 Feb 2004 16:45:31 -0600 >with subject "Kudos to Sean P. Klein, one of our Undergraduate Econ >Majors!" has been postponed because the ECON-FACULTY list is held. No >action is required from you; your message will be reprocessed >automatically once the list owner releases the list. > >The sender is the Editor of the list (list attribute is send=editor,hold). >It just happened right after the log: > >4 Feb 2004 13:22:37 >>> Error X'00000011' opening file >/u/ssc/listserv/lists/econ-faculty.log0402a <<< > >I tried to delete that file and all econ-faculty.db* (and did a search so >db* would be re-created), renamed the *.jobh to *.job and started the >ListServ. But it was no use, the *.job was renamed to *.jobh and the user >still got a 'notice' mail. I even tried to delete the whole list (I moved >all notebook to another directory), re-created the new one and tried to >send a fresh post to the newly created lists (same name) but still failed >miserably. The list has been working well until last week. Would anyone >help - I just want to get the post out no matter what..... Thanks for >your help. > >Shinn