It's a surprise to me to know SS needs xinetd.
It makes sometime i don't use SS, but i don't remember to have to use
xinetd or inetd to have it working.

Regards,

Fabiano.

On 6/19/07, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
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> At 08:19 PM 19/06/2007, you wrote:
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> > > First, find out whether the xinetd daemon is installed and
> > > running. (Firebird SS won't work without it
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> >Sure you meant: Firebird SS *will* work without it.
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> No, Firebird SS won't work without it. You can't make a direct local
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> > > SS (fbserver) does* start a process and it sits there listening for
> > > a connection attempt via xinetd
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> >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).
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