I just noticed there are a number of other commands cause it to crash as well. Just for reference I have already dug up the instructions that Ben Parker sent me many months ago for rebuilding LISTNAME.list with listview and that didn't make the problem go away. Here's the commands I used. cd /home/listserv/home ../listview listname > listname.txt vi listname.txt # everything looked okay mv listname.list listname.badlist mv listname.txt listname.list cd .. ./go bg All four of the lists hosted on this box cause listserv to crash. Any ideas on what I should try next? Thanks. -steve