All you need to do is update the list header (even if you make no changes)
and this will reload the keyword data. If LISTSERV didn't cache list headers,
you would be sorry unless you had a very small number of lists :-)

  Eric
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Wayper <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, 31 May 1999 04:16
Subject: Shutdown command - reboot as well?


> People,
> 
> Running a 1.8d LISTSERV on Windows NT 4.0 Intel.
> 
> I need to shutdown and restart the lists machine due to the Keywords file
> of one of our lists being cached.  (NB LSoft people - can this be fixed as
> a top priority?  It's stupid to have a cached version out of date!)  I'd
> like to do it from here rather than have to drive twenty or thirty KM and
> do the bounce manually (server is not reachable via standard NT server
> controls for security reasons).
> 
> Now, the "SHUTDOWN" command says it stops LISTSERV, but it doesn't say if
> it then starts it again.  I can see the usefulness of a stop-only SHUTDOWN
> command, but can I use the "SHUTDOWN REBOOT" command that seems to be VM
> only?  Or is it into the car for me?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul Wayper