Hi,
I am trying to run Firebird on mac (our standard development platform). I have tried all server packages available on Firebirdsql.org . The installation process runs ok. But whenever I try to start the server, I get this: $ fbguard fbguard: Invalid user (must be firebird, interbase, interbas or root). If I try to start the server with the root password, nothing happens. No output at all and no server running. A little bit about my scenario: We have some desktop apps running on Windows and we would like to translate it to web app, keeping the same Firebird databases. We will use Ruby on Rails. We use Macs and we need to setup a local Firebird machine. My current Firebird installation have the following binaries: 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 5259 Jul 9 09:26 changeMultiConnectMode.sh 24 -rwsr-sr-x 1 firebird firebird 8576 Jul 9 09:26 fb_inet_server 1264 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 643936 Jul 9 09:26 fb_lock_print 1624 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 830060 Jul 9 09:26 fb_smp_server 496 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 253648 Jul 9 09:26 fbguard 504 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 254928 Jul 9 09:26 fbsvcmgr 520 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 264792 Jul 9 09:26 fbtracemgr 1080 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 552144 Jul 9 09:26 gbak 1224 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 623808 Jul 9 09:26 gdef 656 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 335844 Jul 9 09:26 gfix 1296 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 663112 Jul 9 09:26 gpre 1192 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 610228 Jul 9 09:26 gsec 1144 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 581820 Jul 9 09:26 gstat 1488 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 759696 Jul 9 09:26 isql 1152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 586068 Jul 9 09:26 nbackup 1152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 588604 Jul 9 09:26 qli Thanks. David William
