[H-GEN] Installing Interbase on RH6.1

[Jason Henry Parker]

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Brent Wesley <brent at scanningsystems.com.au> writes:

> David Duffy wrote:
> > Hmmm... no response on that port number. Wait! Could the firewall rules
> > be stopping access to that port even on the internal network?
> > Regards...
> Yes, if the firewall is blocking port 3050 on the local interface.
> The best way is to check it on the machine that is running  interbase eg telnet
> localhost 3050.

What's this fascination with telnet?

$ netstat --inet --listening

will show whether something is listening on that port, and

$ sudo fuser -v -n tcp 3050

will show its PID.

The advantage of this method is that it is completely passive and does
not require the process that is bound to the port to receive a
connection, or any data (which may well make it do *anything*).

Admittedly this is not a concern in this case.

jason, proving there is so More Than One Way To Do It in shell.
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