Sounds like your Firebird server isn't started. Try this:

1. Type 'ps -auxw'
2. Look in the list of processes running for one called fbguard and one
called fbserver (this will appear at the very end of the process line)

If you don't see these running, your server isn't started.

Myles

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Myles Wakeham
Director of Engineering
Tech Solutions Inc.
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Phone (480) 451-7440
Web: www.techsol.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: iguana_xyz [mailto:iguana_xyz@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:45 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Firebird 1.5 install on red hat 9
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> I still get the error:
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> SQL> connect '127.0.0.1:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb';
> Statement failed, SQLCODE = -902
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> Unable to complete network request to host "127.0.0.1".
> -Failed to establish a connection.
> -Connection refused
> SQL>
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> Thanks
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> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Myles Wakeham" <myles@t...>
> wrote:
> > What happens if you change 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'?
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> > Myles
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