Thankyou, that was the issue, no Xinetd. "yum install xinetd" fixed it :)
Thanks Heaps guys :)
-- Nathan

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lsces@...> wrote:
>
> Helen Borrie wrote:
> > Is xinetd running?
>
> Nathan
> xinetd was not installed on Mandriva and was not running on SUSE on
my last
> attempts to get Linux up and running ;)
> Once sorted Firebird was fine.
>
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