Nando Dessena schrieb:

>
> Carlo,
>
> > I'm trying to connect to my IB database using isql on linux with the
> > following syntax:
> >
> > SQL> connect /db/mydb.gdb;
>
> from what I've been told, local connections aren't available under
> Linux, and you should use TCP/IP (with localhost or 127.0.0.1).
> HTH

This isn't true, the syntax is totally correct, but
there is a localhost entry missing in /etc/hosts.equiv.

So try to do the following

echo localhost >> /etc/hosts.equiv
(and, just to be sure, or if you have a Redhat based
distribution)
echo localhost.localdomain >>/etc/hosts.equiv

Frank

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