thx for the help so far, but the adventure continues:
compiled latest ser from CVS on sol8 from scratch..
and still using the same ser.cfg
but can't start ser anymore, that's what the log shows:
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/mysql.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so
0(15264) loading module /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so
0(15264) find_param_export: found <db_mode> in module usrloc
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so]
0(15264) find_param_export: found <calculate_ha1> in module auth
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so]
0(15264) find_param_export: found <password_column> in module auth
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <mf_process_maxfwd_header> in module maxfwd_module
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <sl_send_reply> in module sl_module
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <sl_send_reply> in module sl_module
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so]
0(15264) find_export: <rewriteFromRoute> not found
0(15264) parse error (79,19-20): unknown command, missing loadmodule?
0(15264) find_export: found <www_authorize> in module auth
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <www_challenge> in module auth
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <save> in module registrar
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <lookup> in module registrar
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <sl_send_reply> in module sl_module
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <t_relay> in module tm
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so]
0(15264) find_export: found <sl_reply_error> in module sl_module
[/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so]
ERROR: bad config file (1 errors)
0(15264) INFO: signal 15 received
0(15264) Memory status (pkg):
0(15264) qm_status (72d38):
0(15264) heap size= 1022872
0(15264) used= 0, used+overhead=25704, free=997168
0(15264) max used (+overhead)= 25704
0(15264) dumping all allocked. fragments:
0(15264) dumping free list stats :
0(15264) hash= 521. fragments no.: 1
0(15264) -----------------------------
anyone a pointer to what i have missed?
tia again
-k