When you say you "rebooted" LISTSERV, did you re-IPL CMS or explicitly re-ACCESS the disk the BITEARN NODES is on? CMS is lousy about updating the directory of a R/O disk someone else has changed, and I'm not sure Eric has included any code to work around that. Re-ACCESSing the disk might solve the problem if there's only one BITEARN NODES to worry about (ie, not on multiple disks). Nick * [log in to unmask] * [log in to unmask]