Helen -

Thank you for the response, and please accept my apologies for the
skimpy information. However I have inherited the systems and am trying
to figure out what happens when one system is copied on top of another
with the Linux rsync. FirebirdSS-1.5 is running on both systems when I
do a "ps -A | grep fbserver", but only one server is online; the other
is suppose to be a backup server in case the primary server fails.

I cannot find any reference to Firebird in the password file nor in the
owner/group for the directories on the server that is running properly;
All directories and files are owned by root. And as I said, everything
works fine.

No doubt my client has messed things up by copying the
Interbase/Firebird data files onto the backup server, yet the
owner/group and permissions appear to be the same for all
directories/files on both servers.

Not sure where to begin in attempting to solve this problem....

Todd

Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 03:01 AM 28/04/2006, you wrote:
> >I am using rsync to synchronize two Linux servers. Using IB Console,
> >I am able to log into Firebird, however if I try to access a DB, I get
> >an error message that I do not have file permissions. The permissions
> >on the servers appear to be identical as well as the Owner and Group.
> >
> >Proably missing something simple.....
>
> Well, as a problem description, it's all terribly vague. The Linux
> user that runs the Firebird server is named 'firebird'. If you have
> followed the instructions in the release notes, you should have
> created a firebird group and put the firebird user in it, along with
> any other system users that need to do file-level stuff on database files.
>
> Then, the firebird group needs to have rwx permissions for every
> directory where you house a database; and must have rw permissions
> on the database file itself.
>
> Can't tell from your description whether this is what you've done. I
> experience a "glump" when I read that you might be trying to use a
> filesystem utility to "synchronise" two databases, though....
>
> ./heLen
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