connection refused

[<gaz...@ma...>]

Help
I have installed lirc from both src and rpm and have had the following 
problem on both occasions. I have placed my lircd.conf file in /etc/ 
and lircd starts correctly. But whenever i try to use irw to check all 
is ok i get the following message:

connect:  Connection refused

i have tried re-installing several time and have changed the permission 
of lircd to 666, as well as lirc and lircm.

So i am stumped. I am sure this is something that has come up before 
but i cant search the archives, they seem to be really slow and the 
results never appear.

Hope someone can help, sory if this is a really stupid problem.

Gareth

P.s - doea nyone know of a webmail service that has thread support for 
mailing lists. I am subscribed to Mythtv-dev, Mythtv-users, linux-dvb 
and now lirc. My inbox is getting full very quickly!!

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