At 12:33 PM 17/01/2007, you wrote:

>No it is not listening. I saw another message that suggested telnet
>127.0.0.1 3050 and it was refused.
>
>So what do I have to do to get it listening :-) ?
>
>I did check the firebird file and it is in the /etc/xinetd.d directory
>and disable = no.

Ah, so you are running Classic, then. Classic isn't "listening" at
all. But xinetd needs to be listening. Is it installed and running?

./heLen