----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Anderson" <dean@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 6:43 PM
Subject: [ib-support] Linux building howto
> This might make a good entry in the FAQ (for building 0.9.4 on Linux)
> My next question is how you build/bootstap on a new platform...
>
>
[snip...]
>
> Install Interbase 6.0 (not 6.0.1).
> Startup the interbase server. It will give a message saying "cant start
> server". But if it runs, and works, its ok. Its running if you see
> ps ax|grep ib
> 28268 pts/3 S 0:00 /usr/interbase/bin/ibguard -f
> 28269 ? S 0:00 /usr/interbase/bin/ibserver
> 28270 ? S 0:00 /usr/interbase/bin/ibserver
> 28273 ? S 0:00 /usr/interbase/bin/ibserver
>
I've seen this happen when the interbase user didn't have host equivalence
on localhost. The server does start, but since localhost doesn't have host
equivalence you can't make "local" connections.