I was running an older version of SER and decided to upgrade my installation.  I downloaded a solaris 10 installation and did the pkgadd –d to install it.  Everything seems to have worked, but when I try and start ser using serctl start I get the following response:

Starting SER : PID file /var/run/ser.pid does not exist -- SER start failed

I can’t seem to get past this point.  Why does it care if the ser.pid file exists since it is supposed to be starting the application?  I would appreciate any suggestions?