Hi, This is regarding a new clean install of CentOS 6.2, 64-bit.

As root, I ran these 2 commands, without errors:

rpm -Uvh
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

yum install firebird firebird-superserver

Firewall port 3050 is open for tcp and udp.

Firebird did not start automatically. I tried

bin/fbsvcmgr -start

and

bin-superserver/fbsvcmgr -start

and both give the same error about not being able to connect to localhost.

ping 127.0.0.1 --> works
ping 192.168.x.x --> my router, works
ping 208.201.x.x --> public ip, works

My firebird.conf file has the service bound to the local ip, 192.168.x.14.

Questions:

1. What is the difference between bin/ and bin-superserver/ executables? I wanted to test superserver. Is bin/ the classic version?

2. Does anyone know what I should chase in order to make fbsvcmgr connect on localhost? Is there syntax that would let it connect on 192.168.x.14 instead of localhost? Is there any other way to start firebird server without using fbsvcmgr?

3. Is anyone here running Firebird 2.5 superserver on CentOS 6.2 ?

I'm not sure whether I did something wrong with the CentOS packages. I did NOT customize anything about EPEL package priority as advice on that point was too confusing.

I would greatly appreciate some advice on this one.

Thanks,

Ann