I'm somewhat embarrased to pose this question, but I am having some
difficulty. I am running Firebird 1.5 on RedHat Enterprise and do not
know how to halt just the Firebird database engine. Currently to halt
the engine, I am having to stop the xinetd service (Firebird is an
xinetd based service), which is not desirable.

So, how do I simply stop the database engine only, such that it is no
longer accepting connections? Thank you.

max_nivek