> Sorry if this is hijacking the thread. Is there a way to view the
> number of active connections in Linux ?

Interesting question.... For ClassicServer you can always do "ps ax |
grep gds_inet_server | wc", it will give you number of instances (one
instance - one user). SuperServer provides such information through
so-called ServicesAPI, but I'm not sure if there is a Linux tool that
is able to show this. In times of InterBase you could use IBConsole on
Windows to connect to the server on Linux and check number of
connections, but IBConsole is not part of Firebird project. Probably
IB Expert and FB Workbench provide such information, I do not know (I
have always used ClassicServer, so trick with ps worked quite fine for
me).

Roman