Eric,
	Thanks for the update.

I went from a Windows 2000 server to Windows 2003.

All path structures were the exact same.

That is the only error that would occur in the log, over and over, each time
I tried to start the service.

CR

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From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: Server failure, migration


You normally see this error when migrating between servers of different
architectures, for instance Windows vs. unix, or just unix brand 1 vs. unix
brand 2. Not every file can be copied over and reused as is, some files
contain information specific to the system LISTSERV is running on, there are
also subtle differences between Windows and unix, between 32-bit and 64-bit
systems, and so on. But from Windows x86 to Windows x86, you should be able
to copy the whole directory tree and not worry about it, assuming of course
that the target directories match the source directories. That is, if you
are transferring from C:\LISTSERV to E:\Products\L-Soft\LISTSERV, it is not
going to work as is because all your paths are different.

The particular error you are getting indicates that PERMVARS.FILE cannot be
updated. I cannot tell you more without a larger excerpt from the log,
either way 1.8d is very old and the source code I am looking at probably
does not match the source code used to compile what you are running.

  Eric