On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:38:51 EST, UB Listserv Administrator <[log in to unmask]> said: > I always look in the spool directory for files that end in .jobh This unfortunately doesn't help for proactive checking - it won't detect a HELD list until something actually gets queued for it. You could probably create a little Perl thingy to grovel through the PERMVARS file, using this as a base: % cd ~listserv/home % strings permvars.file | grep -i lswhld 2> /dev/null | tail -1 Totally undocumented reverse engineering of course, I might be totally wrong. ;)In p In particular, I'm assuming the last entry is the most recent, lose the 'tail -1' if that doesn't seem to work... /Valdis