Dean Anderson wrote:

> Actually, the problem is not related to Gnome in particular, so this
> instruction isn't valid. The "problem" is that the system will allocate
> ports above 1024 to anonymous sockets (sockets that aren't bound to a
> particular port). Whenever socket is created, it is assigned a (basically
> random) port unless a specific port number is bound to the socket either
> on
> creation or by the bind system call. So port 3050 could be in use by
> something. Use fuser -n tcp 3050 to find out what (if anything) is using
> 3050. You will have to kill that process.
>
> It would be preferable if interbase or firebird would request a port
> number assignment from IANA, which could be assigned below 1024, which
> would preclude such collisions. Of course, then the server will need to be
> suid, and able to setuid/setgid itself to the correct non-root user after
> getting its sockets setup.

Thank you for the clarification.
May I add this information to the howto?

Frank

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