At 09:58 PM 11/01/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>In article <5.2.0.9.2.20050112081904.06affd60@...>, Helen Borrie
>wrote:
>> That's a very old rpm you have there: about 1.5-RC9 by my
>> estimation. What do you get (if anything) when you do
>
>they are from the 1.5.2 download from ibphoenix.com
>
>FirebirdSS-1.5.2.4731-0.i686.rpm
>firebird_20041230_1157.tar
>
>>
>> rpm -qa | grep Firebird
>
>FirebirdSS-1.5.2.4731-0
>
>if you recall I had headaches with installation/upgrade, so I just started
>again, coping the /opt/firebird directory to one side and using the tar
>installation instead

Well, Nick, I don't think you've beaten it yet.

Here's the output of ls -l on the bin directory of my fresh install of the Firebird 1.5.2 SS rpm on Mdk 9.1:

total 4356
-r-x------ 1 root root 4582 Dec 12 21:23 changeDBAPassword.sh*
-r-x------ 1 root root 3799 Dec 12 21:23 createAliasDB.sh*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2185 Dec 12 21:23 fb_config*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8280 Dec 12 21:24 fbguard*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 122868 Dec 12 21:24 fb_lock_print*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 81 Jan 12 20:19 fbmgr*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 15672 Dec 12 21:24 fbmgr.bin*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2191568 Dec 12 21:24 fbserver*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 324236 Dec 12 21:24 gbak*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 363820 Dec 12 21:24 gdef*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 52460 Dec 12 21:24 gfix*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 412396 Dec 12 21:24 gpre*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 31948 Dec 12 21:24 gsec*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 129996 Dec 12 21:24 gstat*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 270348 Dec 12 21:24 isql*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 20:21 listing.txt
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 444620 Dec 12 21:24 qli*
-r-x------ 1 root root 4553 Dec 12 21:23 SSchangeRunUser.sh*
-r-x------ 1 root root 1422 Dec 12 21:23 SSrestoreRootRunUser.sh*

I think your rpm database is still euchred. :-(

./heLen