--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>

thank you, Helen. This works excelent!
Petr Jakes