Hi, Although you mention you only have 1 machine you later mention that compute work is done on one and metadata is available on another.  That sounds like a 2 machine config with dedicated app and metadata servers.  With that type of config I would confirm with your sysadmin that when they reboot the servers the app server doesn't get started until the metadata server machine has started and the metadata server has fully initialized. You may or may not have a Java app server depending on the SAS products you have.  Do you use any of SAS Web Report Studio, SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS BI Dashboard? It would be handy to know which log file contains the error so you know which service is failing.  This is a command I can use on my Linux server to grep all the logs for a specific day looking for the word error but also printing out the name of the file it occurs in and the line number.  Not sure if your UNIX flavor supports all these options but, if not, the man pages might have alternatives. find /opt/sas92/ebiedieg/Lev1 -name '*2012-01-28*.log' -exec grep -Hni error {} \; Cheers Paul ... View more