Thank you for good pointers. This was indeed inetd problem since on
Solaris 10 it does not use inetd.conf anymore. I did not find the
install script you were talking about, but configured inetd manually
(and hopefully correctly) and now can telnet to gds_db and run gsec.
However I still cannot connect to any databases and now do not get any
messages in firebird.log.
running
#./isql /usr/local/firebird/security.fdb
gives me
Abort - core dumped

Any ideas on how I could further troubleshoot this?

Thank you,

Andrei

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>
> At 10:59 AM 23/02/2007, you wrote:
> >I installed Firebird 1.5.3 CS on Solaris and get an error
> >INET/inet_error: connect errno = 146
> >in the log any time I try connecting to a database. Anyone knows what
> >this means and how to fix it?
>
> Yes, it means one of three things:
>
> 1) inetd is not running
> or
> 2) inetd is running but it hasn't been configured to listen for
> connection requests from Firebird clients
> or, those aside,
> 3) your firewall is blocking connections through the tcp/ip port that
> is configured for gds_db (i.e. usually port 3050)
>
> How to fix it? Well, check all of those things. If it turns out to
> be (2) then you need to run the install script that you should find
> in Firebird's /bin directory.
>
> ./heLen
>