On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:31:36 EDT, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> said: > Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=78). The server is probably not started. > > I stopped and restarted listserv, but that didn't help. I can get to many of the web pages through WA, but none that require authentication. Hmm.. there's a known issue with the 'lsv' process not opening port 2306 on the way up after a crash or a kill -9, because the old process didn't close() the socket and it doesn't use SO_REUSEADDR, but restarting the lsv process again should fix that (because the second restart will almost certainly be more than SO_LINGER time after, so the port will be available). You probably want to use 'netstat -a -n' and/or 'lsof' to see who, if anybody, has port 2306 open, and double-check that any firewalling in effect has a punch-out for that port. I find the 'lcmdx.c' program very useful for diagnosing this stuff - using it to submit a 'release' command directly to the 'lsv' process bypasses all of the webserver issues - if 'lcmdx release' doesnt return a proper output for 'release', it's either a networking issue or an 'lsv' issue. /Valdis