At 08:30 AM 17/02/2004 +0100, you wrote:

>hi all.
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>after a quite long time i could go back to use firebird; the first thing
>was updating from vers. 1.0 to 1.5 rc8.
>some change in directories and in name of the security db were not a
>problem; but i got a surprise when i found that i was no more able to
>connect with old databases, getting error -502 and messages about a
>supposed lack of permissions (i'm using fedora core 1) from isql. then i
>moved the db to the same disk as / and the problem was solved (before it
>was in a different hard disk, but in the same pc). something too
>strange. i disinstalled 1.5 (installed via rpm) and went back to 1.0:
>the problem disappeared.
>someone has got similar problems, or has a great idea for me?
>thanks in advance.

Yep. You must give the firebird user owner rights to your database
directory tree(s) AND you need to ensure that
1) all the database files have rw- (owner read/write) privileges
and
2) that the owner has rwx privileges on the directories themselves.

(I found this out the hard way)

/hb

>bye
>marco
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