aha.. I have found the problem ! Feb 3 13:56:02 croaker ser: WARNING: could not rev. resolve 192.168.71.3 -->> this shouldn'e be a big issue, as long as I am playing inside my local network, right? Feb 3 13:56:02 croaker ser[27023]: connect_db(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) -->> 'ser' database is in diffent server Feb 3 13:56:02 croaker ser[27023]: db_init(): Error while trying to connect database -->> please tell me, how I will tell ser about my mysql server, including username and password. Please .. help .. Evan, thanks a lot for forwarding me in proper direction. MOhammad Evan Borgstrom <evan.borgstrom(a)ca.mci.com> wrote on 02/03/2005, 07:38:22 PM: > If you start ser (via command line) and do a 'ps' is it running? What > does /var/log/messages say? Look in the current directory as well as / > is there a core file? > > -Evan >