Hi Folks, I'm running Listserv 1.8a on IRIX 5.2 and have run into a problem I haven't seen before (just when I thought this was a piece of cake :-)) I'm trying to do a put request to listserv, except after several tries Listserv keeps responding with "Invalid password..." After several attempts I started to wonder what Listserv thought I was trying and checked the logs. It seems that 2 characters are being inserted in front of my pw=xxmypasswd, where xx are the invalid characters. So, at a loss, I tried a PW RESET to what was displayed in the logs, but Listserv replies with 'extraneous characters' to this...so I couldn't change my pw. Has anyone else experienced this? I should point out that I have not been able to successfully update to the Feb. version of the bitearn.nodes file, but I can't see how these are related....this is the only change made, but if you suggest I can copy over the Jan. version and try again. I even re-booted Listserv to no avail...my last resort is to re-boot the system, but I wanted to send here before I did that as we have other production software on the system that I don't really want to interupt... but will if you suggest that as well...it is 1:45 am so who would notice? :-) Maybe I should also point out that just before the put request, I was able to successfully create a new list...what I am trying to do now is 'put' the welcome file. All commands are being sent from the Listserv Postmaster/ maintainer userid. Many thanks for anything helpful as I'm really stuck on this one....and of course I made the promise that it would be ready by the am...so if there are any night-hawks out there.... :-) Cheers! --Trish --- Trish Forrest Computing Services University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada