Andrew Gough wrote:

> I had exactly this problem using FB1.5 SS on Debian. I think the manager
> attempts to connect locally to verify the server has started ok.

Yeah, it looks like it goes like this:
1. ibmgr tries to connect to see whether the server is already up
(client error 111 if not).
2. ibmgr starts the server
3. ibmgr checks to see if server started ok and fails

> Just doing the following:
>
> echo 'localhost' >> /etc/hosts.equiv
>
> fixed it for me.

Works! Great.
Thank you.

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