Yves Glodt wrote:

>>Firebird takes about 10 seconds to startup on my debian/unstable.
>>(The box is an Athlon2200) The logfile gathers plenty of
>>"connection rejected..." errors.
>>
>>/etc/hosts.equiv has a line "localhost firebird"
>>
>>Firebird is setup to run as the user "firebird".
>>Version is: LI-V6.2.908 Firebird 1.0
>>/var/log/firebird.log is attached
>
>
> It seems the list software ate the attachment, so here it is:
>
> firebird.log:
> Valhalla (Client) Sat Dec 20 11:23:20 2003
> INET/inet_error: connect errno = 111
>
> Valhalla (Client) Sat Dec 20 11:23:20 2003
> /usr/lib/firebird/bin/ibguard: guardian starting bin/ibserver
>
>
> Valhalla (Server) Sat Dec 20 11:23:22 2003
> SERVER/process_packet: connection rejected for firebird

From this it looks like /etc/hosts.equiv either isn't read, or has bad
syntax. Try adding the line with just "localhost" in it (without firebird).

HTH

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