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).