On 23-12-2013 23:54, Ray Holme wrote:

> Mark,
> I will try your tricks shortly, but for now I have somehow beat the
> beast.
>
> I am not sure how I really beat this, but I think this is what happened.
>
> Somehow, someway xinetd decided no more firebird service. (could not
> find out why). Then even more mysteriously to me, it kept that service
> shutdown over 2-3 reboots. I up-ed the amount of things xinetd would
> allow in both it's xinetd.conf file and added more per_source in the
> local firebird file for xinetd.conf.
>
> Then I KICKED xinetd (kill -1 pid) and everything started to work again.
>
> There are two things that baffle me about the first paragraph, but I am
> happy to say that I re-booted and things are stable.

Good to hear you solved it. It is a weird problem, especially because
isql was able to connect, and I don't think that uses embedded for a
localhost connection.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel