At 10:14 AM 1/06/2006, you wrote:

>trying to stop firebird I am getting following:
>
>[root@fedora_home bin]# ./fbmgr -shut
>Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
>-Failed to locate host machine.
>-The specified name was not found in the hosts file or Domain Name
>Services.
>can not attach to server

Look in your /etc/hosts file and make sure you have an entry there
for localhost.

127.0.0.1 localhost

>in the firebird.log I are following lines:
>fedora_home (Client) Thu Jun 1 02:01:29 2006
> INET/INET_connect: gethostbyname failed, error code = 1

Same thing - the NOS is looking for an IP address for localhost and
isn't finding it.

>I am working with Firebird 1.5 SS on Fedora Core4 (2.6.14)

./heLen