On Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:48:18 -0500 Laura Toms <[log in to unmask]> said: >I've found a directory /var/spool/listserv that has jobs in it, some of >which have a ".error" suffix. What does this mean, is it related? And >what's the significance of the files under lsv/tmp? /var/spool/listserv is probably your LISTSERV spool directory (you set its location in the makefile when installing the code, so it varies from one system to another). The *.error files are files that could not be processed successfully. They're here so that you can retry them if the problem is due to a configuration error, for instance. Sometimes you get a truncated file from the network and you can't do anything with them. You should be able to view these files with the jobview utility. The tmp directory contains temporary files that can be safely erased as long as LISTSERV is not running. The contents of the directory at the time of failure may provide a helpful hint as to what happened, and so does the main LISTSERV log (which unfortunately may not be available if you run the server interactively). In other words I need to know what it was doing when it hung. On unixes without a journaled file system, the #1 cause of weird loops or crashes is a corrupted or missing file after a system crash, so I would advise making frequent backups of the lsv/home subdirectory (or the whole system for that matter). Eric