Uwe Oeder wrote:

> I have recently finished developing my website on WindowsXP and
> everything worked fine. I now installed a PC with Suse Linux 9.1
> Personal Edition , Firebird and XAMPP. So I converted everything that
> was necessary to the correct case. Now however when ever I want to
> connect to my database file with ibase_connect I get the following error
> message : "Connection lost to pipe server operating system directive
> stat failed No such file or directory in
> /opt/lampp/uwe/creativeinfo/engineclass.inc on line 205
> Connection lost to pipe server operating system directive stat failed No
> such file or directory
>
> Does anybody have a clue what could be wrong ?
> I installed the SuperServer Firebird FireBirdCS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.tar.gz
> Does the same with FireBirdCS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.rpm
> and FireBirdSS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.rpm
>
> Please help my pipes of patience are becoming clogged as well.

What connection string are you using, this sounds like a windows style
string in the linux connection?
Can you set up an alias, so that you don't need the full path anyway?

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