Here's a follow up. It wasn't the hard drive, but... ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** Internet: address@hidden (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: address@hidden *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * ******************************************************************************* From: David B. Bukowski <address@hidden> To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> Subject: It stopped the same time newlog was run I'm turning off the newlog off the crontab so I can see what actually happenes. Doesn't help if the log file is not being made when it crashes :), but it looks like a corrupt queue again. -dave --