At 03:32 PM 24/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>I found a solution, though I really don't know why there was a problem to
>begin with.
>
>In my makefile, I redefined my GPRE macro, adding "-user sysdba -password
>masterkey". That works but I don't know why it's necessary--I never had it
>there before. Is there something I'm missing it the combination of Firebird
>users in isc4.gdb, the startup (by root in init.d), the actual permissions of
>the *.gdb file? I've tried this with FB 1.0.3 and it behaves similarly.

Possibly your old installation had the ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD
environment variables defined and the new one doesn't?

/heLen