At 12:58 PM 17/08/2005 +0930, you wrote:

>It appears that the FB installer was installing the .conf files to the root
>install_path directory rather that inside the BIN directory.
>
>I moved all files other than the readme, etc and then FB started to work fine.
>
>What's strange is that the installer is the same I used for my initial
>installation which worked fine. AND what's even more wierd is that obviously
>for FB to work previously the conf files must have existed within the BIN, but
>how did they move from there to the root install_path?
>
>I wonder what will happen when I reboot the server?

Try it. It alls sounds pretty SNAFU, actually.

But the .conf files for a *server installation* have to be in the firebird
root, i.e., the directory ABOVE the bin directory.

So - were you talking about a server installation? or an Embedded setup?

./heLen