HI- I kind of solved the problem but not really. I just used super-classic.
now i can stop and start the server at will. To help someone else out if they come across this in fedora24 I do: [root@localhost system]# systemctl start firebird-superclassic.service [root@localhost system]# top -b -n1 | grep fb 4102 firebird 20 0 29272 372 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 fbguard 4103 firebird 20 0 101544 10020 8416 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 fb_smp_serv+ [root@localhost system]# systemctl stop firebird-superclassic.service [root@localhost system]# top -b -n1 | grep fb I was getting error messages trying to start and stop the server with classic. With classic each process starts its own server. I think you can use kill or another method. Maybe when the client disconnects they dissapear? Not sure about classic. I will just stick with superclassic for now. Hope that is correct and it helps someone. thx. -jim
