--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <s3057043@y...> wrote:

> It doesn't matter what YOU have access to, you have asked the FB server
> to create a database in /home/garrett/foo.fdb. It is not running under
> your security privilledges (nor root), but rather the user under which
> the FB daemon is running.
>
> >
> > I'm wondering if the Firebird deamon is trying to create/modify
> > something in the background and can't because of file permissions.
> This
> > is just blind speculation.
>
> Sport on, think of it as you sending a request to the Firebird daemon
> and it carrying it out and returning you the result. In this case you
> have asked it to create a file and the OS has told it that it isn't
> allowed to.

Okay, well, yes...this had occurred to me :-)

The directory writeable by anybody (used sudo chmod o+rw on it).

I was speculating that there was another file (not the db) that FB was
trying to get to.