Roman,

At 12:05 PM 10/09/2004 +0200, you wrote:

> > The answer was in /var/log/messages
> > I had never expected that java may log something there. I was
> > expecting output on the console..
> > this is what I have in it:
> > Sep 10 12:47:25 nikolay java: Missing configuration file:
> > /usr/local/firebird/firebird.conf, exiting (No such file or
> > directory)
>
>Most likely this is a bug in the embedded engine, but the workaround seems
>to be obvious.

Not a bug, just a confusing naming condundrum. There is no "embedded
engine" on Linux. "libfbembed.so" was just the name that Nickolay gave to
Classic server's libgds.so when the renamings happened in Fb 1.5.

libfbembed.so is a local (unthreadable) client that you can use with
Classic, that does a direct connect to a Classic server instance. The
"embed" part is a reference to "embedded SQL", since this is the client
that was traditionally used for apps written in C or Cobol with embedded
static SQL precompiled into API macro calls.

Of course, once you starting moving pieces of Classic around to
non-installed locations, things will fail to work. I do agree with you and
Jim about the "drop-dead" effect of a missing conf file; but other missing
pieces of the server will cause worse problems. <g>

Helen

./heLen