Hi, I am really new with SER. I ve downloaded and installed SER on red hat linux ver 9. The never ending problem which I am facing is that as soon as i install mysql the SER stops runing. i try to start it again through /sbin/ser but i get an error msg. And the msg which i get is : ERROR: loading config file(/usr/local/etc/ser/ser.cfg): No such file or directory ... I ve got no clue why its giving me this message. please help me out on this. Can you please send me step by step guide lines for any messenger to downloaded and how to configure mysql ver 4.0 so that I can benifit from SER. thanks shahzad sadiq