Subject RE: [firebird-support] Re: SuperServer on Gentoo doesn't start any more
Author Brenden Walker
> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Michael Weissenbacher
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:42 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Re: SuperServer on Gentoo
> doesn't start any more
>
> Hi Herta,
> > I just created this file and afterwards started firebird:
> no change,
> > same error message (and same delay).
> Please create a bug-report @.... Gentoo's firebird
> ebuild, which was changed lately to comply to FHS, seems to
> be broken. I've got the same problems here. Neither
> superserver nor classic does currently work with Gentoo's ebuild.
> In the meantime just use the official release, not the Gentoo ebuild.
>
> See the comment that gentoo's ebuild emits:
> * Firebird is no longer installed in /opt. Binaries are in
> * /usr/bin. The core, udfs, etc are in /usr/share/firebird. Logs
> * are in /var/log/firebird, and lock files in /var/run/firebird
> * Please report any problems or issues to bugs.gentoo.org.

It seems to work fine launched from inetd (well, xinetd) at least on my
server.