On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Traweek wrote:

> I am running listserv 1.8e on Win 2000.  Ever so often our SQL server will
> hang up and in the process it will cause the List Serv to hang as well.  I
> think this occurs if a job is sent to it while it's DB connection to the SQL
> server is down.  Is there a way to detect this, I thought about monitoring
> the services, but wasn't sure if this would actually detect the outage,
> since the service is still showing the running status.

Try downloading "Big Brother" which can monitor just about anything that
runs on a computer! The URL for this software is http://www.bb4.com and
we use it to monitor both our Listserv's and at least two dozen other
systems (Windows and different Unixen).