thank you girish and mirian for your replies. indeed i now have ser running in the foreground. i am however having difficulties with authentication and registration. i am able to register via sipsak on the same machine running ser. i am also able to register using sipsak from my another (home) network (which is behind a nat'd firewall) if i use the -H option and explicitly set the hostname. however i am unable to register using iether kphone or sjphone.

my ser.conf looks like this:

loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/mysql.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so" loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth_db.so"

modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 2) modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", yes) modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "password") modparam("auth_db", "password_column_2", "ha1b") modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1)

any help, hints or rtfm's would be appreciated...

thanks,

daryl

Girish wrote:

Hello,

--- Marian Dumitru marian.dumitru@voice-sistem.ro wrote:

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Note that the configuration values from SER config file have priority over the command line parameters. Most probably you have set "fork=yes" in your SER config file. Please change that value.

In Daryl's original post, he says that he needs to do some troubleshooting. May be he wants to print the debug information on the console? Along with the 'fork=', also set 'log_stderror=' and start ser with -E option.

Regards,

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daryl wrote:

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folks, i am running ser version: ser 0.8.12 (i386/freebsd) and am trying to do some trouble shooting. thought i wuld try running the process in the foreground. according to the man page this is done w/the -D command flag. however when i try this ser still detaches and becomes a daemon... am i missing something?

tia,

daryl

===== Girish Gopinath gr_sh2003@yahoo.com