maxima --server 9734



Hello

When I try the command
> maxima --server 9734
I get the following error messages and it enters the Lisp debugger.
> WARNING: *FOREIGN-ENCODING*: reset to ASCII
> jfa: starting server on port 9734
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> 
>  UNIX error 111 (ECONNREFUSED): Connection refused
> 
> Automatically continuing.
> To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.
> 
> *** - THROW: there is no CATCHer for tag MAXIMA::RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER
> Break 1 [1]>
> [2]>

I am trying this on a linux computer (SuSE 9.3), Maxima 5.9.2.
On a different WindowsXP computer, same Maxima version, I get a similar error.

Can anyone tell me how to start maxima in server mode? I only need to access 
the Maxima server on localhost.
The message "Connection refused" sounds like a firewall problem. But 
> yacas --server 9734
does work. The warning about UTF-8 encoding is not related.
I want to test if it is possible to use Maxima from Mavscript. (This would 
allow to use Maxima commands in OpenOffice text documents).

Thanks

Adrian V.