At 11:42 PM 31/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I am new to Linux. I have installed FB Classic 1.5.2. Now how do I
>shutdown and re-start the FB service on Linux?

You don't. The "service" for Classic is an open port being monitored by
the [x]inetd service (a daemon). When a connection request comes through
to xinetd from a client, xinetd starts a single process of fb_inet_server
for that client. A clean shutdown of this process occurs when the client
detaches from the database. This might not be immediate, if the attachment
has running transactions.

If a "dirty" shutdown of that process is required (not recommended!) the
process can be terminated with the kill command. You can identify the
process ID (PID) of active fb_inet_server processes using

ps -aux | grep fb

./heLen