Myles Wakeham wrote:

>Does anyone know if there are any published install documentation for
>Firebird 1.5 Super Server for Linux? I'm trying to find out how to get this
>thing started, now that I have installed the RPM for it.
>
>Thanks
>Myles
>
>===========================
>Myles Wakeham
>Director of Engineering
>Tech Solutions Inc.
>Scottsdale, Arizona USA
>Phone (480) 451-7440
>Web: www.techsol.org
>
>

Myles,

The rpm package should take care of anything for you.

Did you see if the fbserver process are running ?

to connect to a database you should use some client tool (isql text
based, or just look here
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_contrib_download
there are a lot os tools)

try connecting to employee.fdb (a sample database)

> /opt/firebird/bin/isql #don't type just isql, cause it will run

another tool...
Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database
SQL> connect "/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb" user sysdba password s;

the above sample uses a local connection

the database connection string is something similar to this
"/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb" for a local connection on unix/linux
"c:\program files\firebird\firebird_1_5\examples\employee.fdb"
"myserver:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb" for tcp connection, the
server is unix/linux
"myserver:c:\program files\firebird\firebird_1_5\examples\employee.fdb"
for tcp connection, the server is windows

you could replace the server name for a ip address

you could put an alternate port on connection string: (default port for
FB is 3050)
"myserver/3051:c:\program
files\firebird\firebird_1_5\examples\employee.fdb" for tcp connection,
the server is windows running on port 3051

you could use alias:
"myserver:my_alias" the "my_alias" should be define on alias.conf (see
release notes)

Take a look on Release Notes in doc directory under your instalation
directory and Getting Started guide
http://www.ibphoenix.com/downloads/qsg.pdf

take a look at

www.firebirdsql.org
www.ibphoenix.com

for more links and docs

see you !

--

Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda.
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br