At 04:28 PM 16/06/2004 +1000, you wrote:

>I've just built a new RH9 box, installed FB1.5 4209 via the install script
>Why does the box sit on "starting Firebird server..." for 6 minutes 30 secs?

It shouldn't; If it's SS, then it's the probably the POSIX threads issue
that's biting you. Unless you want to give Alex's NTPL build a go, refer
to the release notes on exactly this issue. It tells you what you need to
do for RH9 (and now Fedora and Mdk10 as well, that I know of).

NPTL = Native POSIX Threads Library, implemented in RH 9 et al., supposed
to be backward-compatible with binaries built with the superseded
libpthread library but not so.

>why so long? what's it doing? where can I find out what it is doing? The box
>takes very little time to startup if I set it not to start FB on boot and
>when it's booted, I can start FB in a split second. Is it the order of
>things?
>Thanks and ho..

Not usually. My RH8 box starts up Firebird (Classic) at bootup - there's a
delay of about 2 seconds while xinet gets its act together, before it
carries on and loads other daemons. RH8 doesn't have the NPTL.

It's actually faster on my Mdk 9.1 box, which has Superserver (but Mdk 9.1
doesn't have the NPTL).

>What are the NPTL builds?

See Alex's reply to your same question in devel.

/heLen