Lester Caine [09-05-19 12.08] :

> Philippe is pointing out that the /usr/lib/ links have been added AS
> LINKS so that people who are used to finding the utilities in /usr/lib
> will still see them. And I suspect that /usr/lib is in the command
> search path so 'gbak' would work without having to add the /opt/firebird
> to the search path
>

not exactly
here the files list of firebird and firebird-superserver rpm:
drwxr-xr-x /etc/firebird
-rw-rw-r-- /etc/firebird/aliases.conf
-rw-rw-r-- /etc/firebird/fbintl.conf
-rw-rw-r-- /etc/firebird/firebird.conf
-rw-rw---- /etc/firebird/security2.fdb
-rw-r--r-- /etc/logrotate.d/firebird
-rw-r--r-- /etc/profile.d/firebird.csh
-rw-r--r-- /etc/profile.d/firebird.sh
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/fbsql
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/gbak
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/gfix
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/gsec
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/gstat
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/bin/nbackup
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/aliases.conf
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/firebird.conf
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/firebird.log
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/firebird.msg
drwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/help
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/help/help.fdb
drwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/intl
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/intl/fbintl
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/intl/fbintl.conf
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/lib/libib_util.so
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/run
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/security2.fdb
lrw-r--r-- /usr/lib/libib_util.so
drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/doc/firebird-2.1.2.18118.0
-rw-r--r-- /usr/share/doc/firebird-2.1.2.18118.0/IDPL.txt
-rw-r--r-- /usr/share/doc/firebird-2.1.2.18118.0/README.license.usage.txt
drwxr-xr-x /var/lib/firebird
drwxrwx--- /var/lib/firebird/data
-rw-rw---- /var/lib/firebird/data/employee.fdb
drwxr-xr-x /var/log/firebird
-rw-rw-r-- /var/log/firebird/firebird.log
drwxr-xr-x /var/run/firebird

-rwxr-xr-x /etc/rc.d/init.d/firebird
drwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver/fbudf.so
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver/fbudf.sql
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver/ib_udf.so
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver/ib_udf.sql
-rw-r--r-- /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver/ib_udf2.sql
drwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/changeDBAPassword.sh
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/changeRunUser.sh
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/createAliasDB.sh
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fb_config
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fb_lock_print
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fbguard
lrwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fbmgr
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fbmgr.bin
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fbserver
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/fbsvcmgr
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gbak
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gdef
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gfix
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gpre
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gsec
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gsplit
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/gstat
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/isql
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/nbackup
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/qli
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver/restoreRootRunUser.sh
drwxr-xr-x /usr/share/doc/firebird-superserver-2.1.2.18118.0
-rw-r--r-- /usr/share/doc/firebird-superserver-2.1.2.18118.0/IDPL.txt
-rw-r--r-- /usr/share/doc/firebird-superserver-2.1.2.18118.0/README.license.usage.txt

and a symlink /usr/lib/firebird/bin -> /usr/lib/firebird/bin-superserver
and another /usr/lib/firebird/UDF -> /usr/lib/firebird/UDF-superserver

> Do you not have a password file in /opt/firebird/bin? You will probably
> have to be logged in as 'root' to see it, and you certainly need to be
> 'root' to run changeDBAPassword.sh

sysdba password is not generated by the rpm




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