Helen Borrie wrote:

>At 01:04 AM 26/08/2005 -0500, you wrote:
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>>Helen Borrie wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>Then it's not running. Neither ps nor netstat indicate that it is
>>running. But:
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>>(This is all immediately after installing the FirebirdCS rpm on Fedora
>>4, just today.)
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>>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:
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>>"9. Starts the server/service. *Firebird* should *start* automatically
>>in runlevel 2, 3 or 5".
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>>Neither immediately after the installation, nor after multiple reboots,
>>has the service/ daemon been running.
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>OK, look (ls -l) in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ to see whether xinetd* is there.
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No, it is not. With ls -al /etc/rc.d/init.d contains about 50
files, all owned by root, from acpid through crond to portmap to xfs,
ypbind, and yum, but no xinetd

From /etc I get no results from # find . -name xinetd -print

>Also make sure that you have the symlink init.d in /etc, pointing to
>rc.d/init.d/
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Yes, the symlink is there.

>Also, would you please mention which rpm file you are installing from (its
>whole name, please).
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FirebirdCS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.rpm

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Dennis McFall
ACEware Systems, Inc.