Thanks Philippe!

> /sbin/service firebird-superserver start

WORKS to start the server. My next problems is that gsec does not like me. "Your username and password are not defined" -- yet I am using SYSDBA with the default password.

When I run this from / as root,

whereis security2

, no files are found.

Is that normal? Isn't security2.fdb the storage of the usernames?

Thank you also for explaining about the symbolic links - got it.

I will probably start the installation again from the beginning. At this point I have tried YUM, then the RPM files for AMD64 and x64, then deleted all the firebird files, then reinstalled with YUM. So I could believe that a file or two is mixed up.

I had some surprising messages when I tried the RPM files. I will post those in a separate thread.

-Ann

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, philippe makowski <pmakowski@...> wrote:
>
> hrefofficemanager [2012-02-16 21:00] :
> > 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
> yes that's a security reason and a RedHat rule
> don't start service automaticaly after install
>
> use as root :
> /sbin/service firebird-superserver start
>
> If you want to have firebird Superserver started at each boot, as root :
> chkconfig --level 345 firebird-superserver on
>
>
> >
> > bin/fbsvcmgr -start
> >
> bad
>
> > and
> >
> > bin-superserver/fbsvcmgr -start
> >
> that's the same that bin/fbsvcmgr -start
>
> > Questions:
> >
> > 1. What is the difference between bin/ and bin-superserver/
> executables? I wanted to test superserver. Is bin/ the classic version?
> >
> symlinks see for example a ls -la /usr/bin/isql-fb
>
> for classic you would have bin-classic and again with symlinks in bin/
>