Paul,

Thanks, I don't have to install the SS. What do you mean with
"obscure password" ? And sorry, for this OT question, but how can I set
the envvar ? I'm really new to linux (or should I ask this in the Linux
newsgroup ?)

thanks,
Nico

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Reeves <paul@...>
To: <ib-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ib-support] Firebird on SuSe


> Nico Callewaert wrote:
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for your answer, but do you have a guideline to install
> > Firebird ?
> >
>
> Not really. I just took the 0.9-4 classic rpm release from last December
and
> installed it. The rpm install does everything (which is not a lot). The
only
> thing I don't like is that it generates an obscure SYSDBA password, which
didn't
> seem to work properly. This may have been fixed in a later release.
Anyway, I
> ended up copying an isc4.gdb from elsewhere.
>
> After that, I set up the INTERBASE envvar and added $INTERBASE/bin to the
path.
>
>
> Installing the SS version is marginally more complex, or used to be. When
I last
> tried it (about 9 mths ago) I didn't have the patience to work out how to
get
> the server and guardian to start automatically during boot up. Plus, there
were
> a couple of issues with the SS implementation, which are now fixed.
>
>
> Paul
> --
>
> Paul Reeves
> http://www.ibphoenix.com
> taking InterBase further
>
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