hello sir thanks for your reply i got one doubt, can you clarify me. Iam runninng ser version 0.9.6 on fedora core 4 Is the ser version version stable which iam using now ? because in /var/run i dint find a file belongs to ser.pid and one more thing is in /etc/rc.d/init.d there is nothing related to ser that . in the sense for example iam running asterisk ,mysql ...every thing i can see the exucutable files in /etc/rc.d/init.d but nothing belongs to SER . And one more thing i had connected to the database mysql and when i make serctl add it name password email to shows *ERROR: SER/FIFO NOT ACCESSIBLE: 2.* at last i want to know is is this version stable ? if not please tell me how to uninstall this SER and please tell me a stable version that you know which will works fine on fedora 4 waiting for your reply.. Thanks in advance. regards * ravi*