Here are some basic sanity checks that you can do:

1) Check that xinetd is running (as Helen has already said): ps aux |
grep xinetd

if it is not running then start it: service xinetd start
if it is not installed then install it from the rpm

2) Check to see if Firebird is listening on port 3050: netstat -an |
grep 3050

if not then make sure that your firebird file in /etc/xinetd.d is
correct (pointing to right service and binary file)

3) Check to see if the 3050 service is defined: grep 3050 /etc/services

4) I like to make sure my hosts file is cleaned-up: cat /etc/hosts

Should look like
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.107 <whatever your hostname is>


Do those steps and then see what happens.

Thanks,
Steve

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 01:17 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 09:12 AM 26/08/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >Steve Wiser wrote:
> >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >After I run "service xinetd restart", there is nothing in
> >/var/log/messages related to Firebird. The only entry since reboot is
> >for an sshd session that I opened with an SSH client on another
> machine.
> >
> >This is now the /etc/xinetd.conf file:
> >
> >defaults {
> >instances=60
> >log_type=SYSLOG authpriv
> >log_on_success = HOST PID
> >log_on_failure = HOST
> >cps = 25 30
> >}
> >includedir= /etc/xinetd.d
>
> There won't be anything relating to Firebird. xinetd is a daemon that
> just
> runs there, waiting to be asked to do things. If it is asked to start
> a
> firebird process (fb_inet_server) for a requesting client, it will do
> that. All of those other scripts in xinetd.(besides firebird, such as
> cvs,
> sshd-xinetd, rsync, etc.) are also just lying there waiting to be
> asked to
> start something up.
>
> After giving xinetd the restart command, check ps -ax again to see if
> xinetd is running. If it is, then go ahead and try to connect a
> client.
>
> ./heLen
>
>
>
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