Making progress in getting irserver to work...
However, I have hit another snag... when I run irexec I get the following messages
irexec: could not connect to socket
irexec: No such file or directory
if I run irw I get...
connect: No such file or directory
but it runs if I use
irw /dev/lircd
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 with a 64bit kernel 3.2.0-34-generic
Thanks