michf@... wrote:

>>http://sotu.berlios.de/Firebird-Embedded-Linux-HOWTO.html
>
> I worked with it a bit to get it to work, and a few straces later and several
> file not found errors I found out that at least on my machine you need to also
> create an empty run directory.

I'm not sure what do you mean "empty run directory". You mean you had to
create directory named "run" or something like that?

What Linux distribution (and version) are you using?

> On the other hand, why is all the fuss with the password file if you can simply
> import you own password file whenever you work with the embeded server.

Import from where? Anyway, there isn't any fuss about it in my article,
I only wrote that you need to have a copy of it.

> Wouldn't it be simpler and lighter all around to just allow for an
> empty/default username/password? (it would also save the 600K extra file in the
> directory).

This is a question for Firebird developers.

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