Ed Bras schrieb:

> The /etc/hosts contains at least:
> ----
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

try
127.0.0.1 localhost
or
127.0.0.1 localhost.unwired

> [root@ojo root]# ping ojo
> Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP

Never seen this, but hopefully this has nothing to do with the problem.

>
> > Seems to be time to get a copy of this ugly RedHat 7 myself,
> > to check why this distribution behaves so IB unfriendly.
>
> This wouldn't be a bad idea, as I heard some other complaining about it as
> well.

But these only complain about connection rejected for root,
at least after updating glibc (and I don't want to change my
working SuSE installations for an apparently flaky RedHat one)

> Do you know what the meaning of these error numbers is, that appear in the
> log file:

You can look them up in /usr/include/asm/errno.h

> ----
> ojo (Client) Mon Dec 11 13:23:52 2000
> INET/inet_error: read errno = 104

#define ECONNRESET 104 /* Connection reset by peer */

> ojo (Server) Mon Dec 11 13:23:52 2000
> INET/inet_error: bind errno = 98

#define EADDRINUSE 98 /* Address already in use */

This is the error message that pops up when the guardian
trys to restart an aborted server process while the old
process is still hanging around, so it appeared

> What do we do now ??

Not so many ideas any more,
you may try a single + in your hosts.equiv (this is a security hole)
or try the newest rpm from
ftp://firebird.sourceforge.net/pub/firebird/release/FirebirdSS-0.9-1.i386.rpm
and check again that you really have the new globc version from RedHat
installed.

Frank

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