At 02:25 PM 21/04/2005 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>my firebird currently cannot be access by my web apps. It does start
>but it can't be access from outside. When I "netstat -nl" I can't see
>the "3050" listening. As my title says, my var log is giving me this:
>
>incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds.
>Apr 21 13:05:35 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Activating service gds_db
>Apr 21 13:05:36 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Deactivating service gds_db due to
>excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds.
>Apr 21 13:06:06 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Activating service gds_db
>Apr 21 13:06:07 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Deactivating service gds_db due to
>excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds.
>Apr 21 13:06:37 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Activating service gds_db
>Apr 21 13:06:38 iedb3 xinetd[5705]: Deactivating service gds_db due to
>excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds.
>
>I'm using RHEL 03 and Firebird 1.5 .

"excessive incoming connections" means you've used up the limit of xinetd
connection instances that the server is configured for. My RH 8
(installation default) setting is "instances = 60".

./hb