Since it is Fedora or Redhat just type "service xinetd restart" and then
check the /var/log/messages file to see what it is doing.

-steve

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 16:51 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 01:04 AM 26/08/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >Helen Borrie wrote:
> >
> > >Classic needs to have the xinetd daemon running to make remote
> server
> > >connections. Doing ps -ax |grep xinetd will show you whether it
> is. If you
> > >don't see an entry containing fields like xinetd -stayalive
> -reuse...etc.
> > >then it's not running.
> > >
> > >
> >Then it's not running. Neither ps nor netstat indicate that it is
> >running. But:
> >
> >(This is all immediately after installing the FirebirdCS rpm on
> Fedora
> >4, just today.)
> >
> >1. The /etc/xinetd.d/firebird file exists (containing "service
> >gds_db......")
> >2. The owner of the firebird directory and all of its contents,
> >including employee.fdb, is firebird (user).
> >3. I have the release notes open in front of me. The mystery is why
> >this, from page 54, seems not to be the case, this time:
> >
> >"9. Starts the server/service. *Firebird* should *start*
> automatically
> >in runlevel 2, 3 or 5".
> >
> >Neither immediately after the installation, nor after multiple
> reboots,
> >has the service/ daemon been running.
> OK, look (ls -l) in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to see whether xinetd* is there.
>
> Also make sure that you have the symlink init.d in /etc, pointing to
> rc.d/init.d/
>
> Also, would you please mention which rpm file you are installing from
> (its
> whole name, please).
>
> ./heLen
>
>
>
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