On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:42:11 -0700 Lisa Baas said:
>LISTSERV site administrators' forum <[log in to unmask]> wrote
>on 09/16/2004 03:05:25 PM:
>
>> On 16 Sep 2004 at 13:22, Lisa Baas <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>>
>> > VM 1.8e (FIX2002A)
>> Are you sure about the version? OK CANCEL was added in 1.8e and the
>> syntax you used is correct so it should have worked.
>
>That's the version returned by show stats.
>
>> > I'm trying to explicitly cancel an OK cookie so that a message can't
>be
>> > approved by any of the moderators.
>>
>> Note that OK CANCEL only cancels the cookie. Multiple moderators =
>> multiple cookies = all cookies have to be cancelled to achieve this
>> effect. (The 2004a level set will have an actual message rejection
>> mechanism).
>
>Hmm, ok. That confuses me a bit. There's only one cookie file and it has
>the names of both list moderators. I should mention that I'm using the
>"all" parameter, in case that makes a difference.

I haven't used the OK CANCEL xxx, but I'll try it later.  I simply
use the CMS ERASE fn ft command from the postmaster, and let the cookie
expire.  The actual cooke isn't the filetype, but is stored in the
PERMVARS FILE.  Browse the file and you'll see the word CONFIRM
in columns 4-10.  Farther out you'll see the moderator's email address
and the word 'APPROVE listname oooooo' plus a few other things.


>
>> I'm afraid my LISTSERV expertise does not extend to how installations
>> work on VM, but is it possible that when the update was applied, the
>> STDCMD FILE did not get updated?  I can see where you might get that
>> error message if you had an old STDCMD FILE...
>
>The one I have is quite old, from 1998. The entry for OK looks like this:
>
>OK          2 *OK      all    0 1 U
>
>Is there somewhere I can pick up a newer version of the file?


I have the a 2 where you have a 1 in the record, and a newer file.
That field is the max num of arg, ie your immediate problem.

>
>
>thanks
>
>lisa