At 08:19 PM 19/06/2007, you wrote:

>--- 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.

No, Firebird SS won't work without it. You can't make a direct local
connection on Linux with SS.

> > 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).

Tell us more.

./heLen