Jules wrote:

> I can't telnet to localhost 3050, but pinging is fine.

This tells me you probably have a firewall in place.

> I think i'll try ripping everything out and reinstalling FB from scratch... I can't find anything in my o/s relating to /usr/local/firebird

If the problem is the firewall ... will not make any difference.
The files should be in /opt/firebird - at least they are in my SUSE
installs.

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