Mohd. Jeffry wrote:

>batzee_33, How do you install your firebird? Is binary , do you
>compile yourself or emerge? Maybe you need to do what "ebuild
>firebird config" does. Basically these are what ebuild-firebird-config
>executes:-
>
>1. echo "gds_db 3050/tcp" >> /etc/services
>2. echo "localhost" >> /etc/hosts.equiv
>3. echo `hostname` >> /etc/hosts.equiv
>4. chown firebird:firebird /etc/firebird/{isc4.*,security.*}
>
>

I have emerged firebird with USE=inetd to get the classic version. I
tried the SuperServer version before but that didn't work at all.

I must admit I did not execute any config scripts. All I did was
rc-update add firebird default, and I activated the xinetd configuration
which was disabled by default. And then I added the /etc/services line
when I saw that xinetd needs this to open the port.

>for more info see the /usr/portage/db-dev/firebird-<your version>.ebuild
>
>

Perhaps I should look into this :)

Thanks to you both, I'll look into this again as soon as I have the time.

Greetings
Bastian