Hi,

> The /etc/init.d/firebird2 start call will initialize the server fine
> if I sudo it, but seems to have a lot of issues if I try running it as
> user - can't read SYSDBA.password, unknown command start-stop daemon.

Hummm... AFAIR if you're not logged in as root, then you need to pass your
sysdba password starting/shutting firebird server. This password is (used to
be) hardcoded into the /etc/init.d/firebird script. Open it and edit with
your SYSDBA password. I can't remember exactly but you should have something
like:

isc_user=sysdba
isc_password=*yourpass*

export isc_user
export isc_password

{...}

*OR* it seems you can also just edit this SYSDBA.password file probably
located at your firebird root dir. BTW, I thought running
{fb_root_dir}/bin/changeDBAPassword.sh should have done that for you.

Sorry if I'm beeing confused but there's some time since the last linux
install I've done, and never installed fb2 on linux -- but I think it is
pretty much like this

HTH,

Regards,
Anderson Farias