Thanks Paul (and Dimitry), this was indeed the problem and I should have
know better. The lack of semaphores was still and issue but not the main
issue.

Bradley.

Paul Reeves wrote:

>On Thursday 26 May 2005 10:52, Bradley Tate wrote:
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>>Hopefully I've done something stupid and easy to correct.
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>Nope, you haven't done anything stupid, and the problem is easy to
>correct. Brush up on `man xinetd.conf` and add an 'instances = XX' line
>to your firebird entry in /etc/xinetd.d.
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>Paul
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