Dear Philippe,

Thanks for the note. I did find the Firebird directory in the path that you mentioned.
/Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/var/aliases.conf
But, since I am a novice, I really could not tell what program or file was using it.

I deleted the User Account, and I have not seen it again.

Thank you all very much for your help and advice, Tim

On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Philippe Makowski wrote:

> 2011/8/16 Lester Caine <lester@...>
> > A number of applications use firebird as their database, so it's a little
> > difficult to speculate.
> yes
>
> > Do you have a 'firebird' directory in /etc or
> > alternatively in /usr/lib(64) ...
> not under MacOsX ;)
> under MacOsx you have to look at :
> /Library/Frameworks/Firebird.framework/Versions/A/Resources/English.lproj/var/aliases.conf
>
> > either of these may have an aliases.conf file
> > which will then point to the actual database file, and the name of the alias or
> > the file it's point at might help identify the application.
>



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