Is there some hardcoded filter that discards messages from OPERATOR in the LISTSERV code? We are finally trying to automate our shutdown routines to cleanly close out all our service machines and I can't get LISTSERV to accept any commands from OPERATOR. The userid is in the 'postmast' string in LOCAL SYSVARS, and is not in the 'ignore' list either. Messages via tell, MSG, or SMSG don't even get logged on the LISTSERV console. I know 'enabling' operator will confuse it on global messages/warnings but that's the way they would prefer it. /Jeff/