Mr Jan Janak helped me out on this: Use the init.d scripts (usually /etc/rc.d/init.d/ser in RedHat). So u can do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ser start|stop|restart Marc -----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces(a)iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org] On Behalf Of Ashutosh Kumar Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 5:06 PM To: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: RE: [Serusers] starting and stopping ser Hi, In my case also, using "serctl stop", gave the error ""pid file cannot be found....blah blah". And killing all running ser forked processes one by one is cumbersome. So the method I m using for the time being till I get a nice solutions is use the command "killall /usr/local/sbin/ser" , i.e the killall command is followed by the prog name along with the full path or the prog name only, depending upon where in the filesys you are standing right now. I also found the following commands to be usful when viewing running ser processes -ps -auxmchf | grep ser -pstree -Gpn | grep ser : shows ser heirachy wise, (father and sons) Regards Ashutosh ________________________________________ From: serusers-bounces(a)iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org] On Behalf Of Hemant Patel (IP) Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 8:23 PM To: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: [Serusers] starting and stopping ser Hi List , This is my first install and use of ser so please bear with me. I've installed ser 0.9.3 ( Linux i386 ) binary. Started and stopped ser with the default ser.cfg - fine. Amended ser.cfg to load mysql.so auth and auth_db modules as per standard instructions. Mysql version is 4.0.18. I used  'mysql_sh' script to create default ser database and ser , serro users in mysql with default password. Checked that 'admin' user also setup on ser database with default password. Have set debug level 7 in ser.cfg to follow what goes on. Logged in as normal user and then su as root So here goes.. ser start         - this seems to be ok. ser stop         - seems to report ser has stopped ser start         - connection to 127.0.0.1 already in use message ( ???) So am I starting and stopping ser incorrectly ? What's the best way to start and stop ser - in a development environment ? Any pointers gratefully received. thanks -- Hemant Patel ipwise Ltd http://www.ipwise.com hpatel(a)ipwise.com (+44) 0208 2409433 _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers