At 09:21 AM 28/02/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi. I have another gentoo where it works pretty well too.
>
>But not on mine. I changed to your settings, and now I get:
>
>mcfly mbserver # /etc/init.d/firebird start
> * Starting Firebird server...
>check $FIREBIRD/firebird.log file for errors
>can not start server
>[ ok ]
>
>Despite of REALLY STARTING it. And the delay....remains.

Then I would think that the server is already running when you try to run
that script. That's actually the message you get back when trying to
restart the server without stopping it first.

>The traffic occurs thru "lo", at slow-motion, dont know why.
>If I use firebird on another computer, all ok.
>If a tomcat on another computer connects to my firebird, all ok.
>The problem is both locally.

For Superserver, you should be connecting to your database using the
localhost server in the connection path, e.g.
connect localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb

Check that the localhost server is properly declared in /etc/hosts.

./heLen