Thanks! I've installed the current version of xinetd from the
repositories and rebooted.

xinetd is started, nevertheless, trying to connect via ISQL and TCP
("connect localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb") still throws
that "Connection refused" error, probably because no process is
listening at port 3050.

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:10 +1000, Helen Borrie wrote:
> At 06:34 PM 3/08/2006, an anonymous type wrote:
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> >Unfortunately, neither inetd nor xinetd exist on my system.
> >
> >They are neither contained in the setup nor do the setup scripts try
> to
> >create them. This is FirebirdCS-1.5.3.4870-0.i686.
>
> They aren't part of Firebird, they are services provided by your
> OS. If they're not installed, install them!!
>
> http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/breezy/source/xinetd
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> ./heLen
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