Subject Re: [firebird-support] Installing Firebird on Fedora Core 3
Author Helen Borrie
At 08:09 AM 17/05/2006, you wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I am having issues with installing it on FC3 it is getting installed
>but running it is another mater.
>
>After rpm -i i check it is running in the background, but i do not
>know what to do to check if it is working.
>
>i have tried isql but it sais it cant connect to server, also i would
>like to note that i have mysql running aswell.

MySQL's isql program won't work with Firebird. Firebird's isql
program is located in /opt/firebird/bin - so run it either from that
directory prefixed by dot-slash, or run it from anywhere else with
the fully qualified path, viz.

bin ?] ./isql localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb -user
sarky -password abcd1234

or anywhere ?] /opt/firebird/bin/isql
localhost:/opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb -user sarky -password abcd1234

./heLen