found it, /opt/firebird was not writable by firebird

On 10/03/2008, Nick Upson <nick.upson@...> wrote:
> I forgot to say, this is fb 1.5.4
>
> On 07/03/2008, Nick Upson <nick.upson@...> wrote:
> > within a program on linux (fedora core 5) I have this line:
> >
> > EXEC SQL EVENT INIT ALERT_WAIT ('myevent');
> >
> > trying to run the compilied program on a different machine (fc 8), I get
> >
> > operating system directive open failed - permission denied
> >
> > by this point in the program it has already connected and selected
> > data from the database so what permissions is it complaining about?
> >
> > It runs fine on the same machine it was compiled on.
> >
>