Site Configuration Files

These files have different names depending on the platform. They are located in the same directory with the executable binaries.

* Windows operating systems currently supported by LISTSERV: Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003 Server (all variants), Windows 2008 Server (all variants). PLEASE NOTE: Support for Windows 2000 (Workstation and Advanced Server) was withdrawn with the release of LISTSERV 16.0.

These are the only configuration files that should be changed on any LISTSERV installation. Software upgrades may overwrite any other configuration files located in LISTSERVhome directory. They will never overwrite the files listed above. The intent is to help preserve your system settings from one version to the next so that you do not experience the inconvenience of having to reconfigure LISTSERV after an upgrade.

L-Soft international, Inc., is not responsible for system downtime or mis-operation occasioned by the loss of any changes that you make to configuration files other than the ones listed above.

All LISTSERV sites that use the web administration interface to modify the system configuration in real-time will also have a file called SITECFG.FILE (sitecfg.file under unix) in LISTSERV's A directory. This is where LISTSERV stores changes to the default or initial configuration when made via the web interface. This file SHOULD NOT be modified by hand.

At startup, LISTSERV will first read the original site configuration file, and then will read the SITECFG.FILE for any changes to the original configuration.