hi Fred,

I tried to follow ur suggestion to add --chuid $FBRunUser to the
'start-stop-daemon' command.
But now, I got this error when I tried to start the server:

Starting Firebird server: start-stop-daemon: user `--chuid' not found

thanks,
-rp-

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 16:07, Fred Vos wrote:
> Regina Phandu wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Can someone tell me how to install Firebird 1.5 on Debian?
> >
> >I did compile the source but the server won't run.
> >The errors are:
> >
> >ldconfig: Can't link
> > /usr/local/firebird/lib/../gen/firebird/lib/libib_util.so to
> > libib_util.so
> >ldconfig: Can't link /usr/lib/../gen/firebird/lib/libib_util.so to
> >libib_util.so
> >
> >any helps would be appreciated
> >
> >-rp-
>
> Just create a directory /usr/gen/firebird/lib. It helped for me. It
> contains an invalid link now.
> On debian after compiling the sources, make sure to change file
> /etc/init.d/firebird. Under start) make sure to add --chuid $FBRunUser
> to the 'start-stop-daemon' command. If you do not do that, the server
> runs as root, not as user firebird. Maybe the --user flag is unnessary.
>
> Fred