Ed Bras schrieb:

> Thanks Frank for the response as I am getting a bit frustrated that it
> doens't work.
> Sorry for the delayed answers as I was out for two days.

As it seems, that my answer hasn't made it to the list until no,
I will try it again

> > ldd -r -v /opt/interbase/lib/gds.so

> > don't know what its name on your machine.
> The name is ojo (eye in spanisch) as you can see in the command propmt.

Oh, I meant the name of gds.so or gds.so.0 or gds.so.1 or libgds.so. ad
infinitum
this library should be in interbase/lib :-)
But it seems, that this information isn't necessary at the moment.

Btw: what are you exactly looking for ? (....yes the problem.. but what
details ?)

A needle in a haystack :-(
This bind errno seems to say, that ibserver is already running

Have you tried gsec -display ?
Or check with ps ax|grep ib

If this isn't the case, to get some things sorted out:

Check that loopback is working:
The output of route -n should contain a line like
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo

Check that we know our names:
/etc/hosts should at least contain:
127.0.0.1 localhost
and with the correct IP-address, and FQDN sth. like:
192.168.0.3 ojo.somedomain.com ojo

Check that we can ping the local machine
ping -c2 ojo
should return something like
64 bytes from 192.168.0.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.359 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.209 ms
in a reasonable time.



/etc/services should contain the line
gds_db 3050/tcp # InterBase Database Remote Protocol

and /etc/inetd.conf should *not* contain sth like:
gds_db stream tcp nowait root
/opt/interbase/bin/gds_inet_server gds_inet_server

and there shouldn't be an xinetd entry either.

Seems to be time to get a copy of this ugly RedHat 7 myself,
to check why this distribution behaves so IB unfriendly.

Frank

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