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