Paul,

> I was talking a client through installing FB1.5 Classic. When he tried to
> log into GSEC with SYSDBA masterkey he got the message 'Unavailable
> database'. This was in WIN2000 in a command prompt in the FB 'bin'
> directory. He then reinstalled FB in SS mode and it worked OK.
>
>
>
> Is there some problem with command line tools and CS, or are we doing it
> wrong?

You need to specify the security database explicitly via a TCP/IP
connection. For example:

gsec -database localhost:c:\...\security.fdb ....



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