On 14.11.2014 21:04, 'William, David' david.will...@espn.com [firebird-support] wrote: > > > 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 IIRC on Mac firebird installs in classic mode, so connections are dealt by forked server instances - that is in case of classic fb_inet_server
You may try from the terminal: /path/to/isql -user SYSDBA -password whateveritis 127.0.0.1:/path/to/database for further informations: http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/papers_presentations/html/paper-fb-macosx.html hth, marcus > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
