Coco Pascal [09-05-19 12.26] :

> I'm on CentOS 5.3, not F10.

same rules

> CONNECT localhost:employee user sysdba password masterke;
> gives me: cannot attach to password database.

* According to CentOS packaging rules, for SuperServer, firebird service is not started
automatically. You need to start it, as root :
service firebird start.
If you wanted to have Firebird started at each boot, as root :
chkconfig --level 345 firebird on

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