At 09:03 AM 18/02/2012, hrefofficemanager wrote: >Thanks Philippe! > >> /sbin/service firebird-superserver start > >WORKS to start the server. My next problems is that gsec does not like me. >"Your username and password are not defined" -- yet I am using SYSDBA with the >default password. > >When I run this from / as root, > >whereis security2 > >, no files are found.
security2.fdb. But that's not your problem...find the Firebird root directory, which is /opt/firebird in a regular POSIX installation but is probably buried a bit deeper in an EL installation. With a "remote" connection (which is all you can do with SS on Linux) the connection protocol requires the -database parameter. Suppose you find security2.fdb in /usr/firebird. Then, your gsec command (if from Firebird's /bin directory) would be ./gsec -database localhost:/usr/firebird/security2.fdb -user sysdba -password whatever (note the dot-slash) Or, if doing it the fully qualified way: /usr/firebird/bin/gsec -database /usr/firebird/security2.fdb -user sysdba -password whatever Note that root does not need to supply SYSDBA credentials: it has them already. Also consider making a database alias for the security database! ./heLen
