When you install Firebird server on FreeBSD, in /etc/inetd.conf will
appear a line like this:

gds_db stream tcp nowait firebird /usr/interbase/bin/gds_inet_server
gds_inet_server

It's all you need to do, when you restart your FreeBSD the services
in "inetd.conf" will be started and the clientes will be able to connect to
database.
I think the better idea is to use release 5.1, I'm using release 5.1
at this moment.
We have a lot of projects using Firebird with FreeBSD and all are
excelent.
Another thing is to use FreeBSD 4.8/4.9, It's also recomended in some
cases, but we are not having problems with 5.1 release.

Max Wolfring

At 07:25 10/12/03, you wrote:

>I'm trying to install firebird 1.0.2 on freebsd 5.0 (on an old machine:
>i386 - Pentium 133 MHz) in two different ways:
>
>1) package "firebird-1.0_2.tbz"
>After installing package firebird-1.0_2.tbz on freebsd 5.0 with "pkg_add
>firebird-1.0_2.tbz" it seems working fine.
>The text client "isql" works; when i try to execute "./ibmgr -start" in
>bin directory as user "toor", i receive this message:
><
>toor@fbsd95: /usr/local/firebird/bin> ./ibmgr -start
>check $INTERBASE/interbase.log file for errors
>can not start server
> >
>The interbase.log file contains:
><
>fbsd95.cosmic.it Wed Dec 10 21:03:31 2003
> INET/inet_error: connect errno = 61
>fbsd95.cosmic.it Wed Dec 10 21:03:31 2003
> /usr/interbase/bin/ibguard: guardian starting bin/ibserver
>fbsd95.cosmic.it (Server) Wed Dec 10 21:03:33 2003
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for root
>fbsd95.cosmic.it (Server) Wed Dec 10 21:03:33 2003
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for root
>......
> >
>If i try as user "firebird":
><
>@fbsd95: /usr/local/firebird/bin> ./ibmgr -start
>check $INTERBASE/interbase.log file for errors
>can not start server
>@fbsd95: /usr/local/firebird/bin>
> >
>and the log contains:
><
>fbsd95.cosmic.it (Server) Wed Dec 10 21:09:59 2003
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for firebird
>fbsd95.cosmic.it (Server) Wed Dec 10 21:09:59 2003
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for firebird
>......
> >
>
>In process list (ps aux) i can see the following:
><
>firebird 829 0.0 1.8 2580 1048 p0 I 9:09PM 0:00.03
>/usr/interbase/bin/ibguard -f
>firebird 830 0.0 4.9 3736 2952 p0 S 9:09PM 0:00.76
>/usr/interbase/bin/ibserver
>firebird 849 0.0 1.7 2564 1008 p0 I 9:11PM 0:00.03
>/usr/interbase/bin/ibguard -f
> >
>What does this means ? I can see databases from interbase win32 client ...
>
>2) port "/usr/ports/databases/firebird" (make install)
>Aborting compilation with error messages.
>
>Anyone can help me ?
>
>Thank you
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