--- Helen Borrie wrote:

> First, find out whether the xinetd daemon is installed and
> running. (Firebird SS won't work without it

Sure you meant: Firebird SS *will* work without it.

> SS (fbserver) does* start a process and it sits there listening for
> a connection attempt via xinetd

Not really, it's listening for connection attempts on its own. I have
a bunch of SS instalations and none of them has xinetd (some even
don't have it installed).

M.