Michael Möhle wrote:

> My Question again. Do you have AppArmor enabled?? It can prevent fb from
> working.
> Its a security tool from Novell/SuSE. Look here :
> http://en.opensuse.org/Apparmor
> If you have installed AppArmor you must create a so called 'Profile' for
> your App.(FB)
> If you dont do it AppArmor will proactively protect the operating system!
> Or just uninstall AppArmor.
>
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> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com]Im Auftrag von Tom Miller
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Januar 2007 16:53
> An: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: Re: [firebird-support] Re: Installing Firebird 2.0 on Xen AMD64
>
>
> Done. I don't think it is the permissions, at least at the directory /
> file level. I can attach directly to the DB but not through IP as the
> Firebird user.
>
> Helen said something about installing as the Firebird user instead of
> the root. Should I try that next?
>
> Steve Wiser wrote:
> > The point of su'ing to firebird is so you can see for yourself if you
> > have the proper permissions to access the fdb file.... The firebird
> > server is trying to access the file as the firebird user. The easiest
> > test to see if the permissions are correct is to become the firebird
> > user and walk the directories from / all the way to the fdb database and
> > then make sure your firebird group has access to that database file.
> >
> > -steve
> >
> > Thomas Miller wrote:
> >
> >>>>> do you have the proper permissions for the firebird user to
> >>>>>
> >> access the
> >>
> >>>>> fdb file? Sometimes I like to su to the firebird user to make sure
> >>>>>
> >>>> that
> >>>>
> >>>>> all of the directories leading up to the firebird databases have
> >>>>>
> >>>> execute
> >>>>
> >>>>> access set up properly. Also what does your /etc/hosts file
> >>>>>
> >> look like?
> >>
> >>>>> -steve
> >>>>>
> >> if I su to the firebird user, what does that get me? Different errors?
> >>
> >> I guess my main problem here is knowing what I should be seeing vs.
> >> how the system is configured. For instance, looking through some
> >> permission postings in google, it seems that there should be a
> >> firebird group. No such group was created during my install. Should
> >> there be a firebird group?
> >>
> >> Right now the group owner is root. Should I then change all of this
> >> to firebird group. Should everything have rwx rights?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>

I have it installed, but assumed it wasn't active. After this email, I
see it is active by default (unlike the openSuse firewall).

This is probably it. But on the other hand, why would it run in direct
connect mode? Still you are probably right.