On 14.11.2014 21:04, 'William, David' David.William@...
[firebird-support] wrote:

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>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run Firebird on mac (our standard development platform).
> I have tried all server packages available on Firebirdsql.org .
>
> The installation process runs ok.
> But whenever I try to start the server, I get this:
>
> $ fbguard
> fbguard: Invalid user (must be firebird, interbase, interbas or root).
>
> If I try to start the server with the root password, nothing happens. No
> output at all and no server running.
>
> A little bit about my scenario:
>
> We have some desktop apps running on Windows and we would like to
> translate it to web app, keeping the same Firebird databases. We will
> use Ruby on Rails.
>
> We use Macs and we need to setup a local Firebird machine.
>
> My current Firebird installation have the following binaries:
>
> 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 5259 Jul 9 09:26
> changeMultiConnectMode.sh
> 24 -rwsr-sr-x 1 firebird firebird 8576 Jul 9 09:26 fb_inet_server
> 1264 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 643936 Jul 9 09:26 fb_lock_print
> 1624 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 830060 Jul 9 09:26 fb_smp_server
> 496 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 253648 Jul 9 09:26 fbguard
> 504 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 254928 Jul 9 09:26 fbsvcmgr
> 520 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 264792 Jul 9 09:26 fbtracemgr
> 1080 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 552144 Jul 9 09:26 gbak
> 1224 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 623808 Jul 9 09:26 gdef
> 656 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 335844 Jul 9 09:26 gfix
> 1296 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 663112 Jul 9 09:26 gpre
> 1192 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 610228 Jul 9 09:26 gsec
> 1144 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 581820 Jul 9 09:26 gstat
> 1488 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 759696 Jul 9 09:26 isql
> 1152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 586068 Jul 9 09:26 nbackup
> 1152 -rwxr-xr-x 1 firebird firebird 588604 Jul 9 09:26 qli
>
> Thanks.
> David William

IIRC on Mac firebird installs in classic mode, so connections are dealt
by forked server instances - that is in case of classic fb_inet_server

You may try from the terminal:

/path/to/isql -user SYSDBA -password whateveritis
127.0.0.1:/path/to/database

for further informations:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/papers_presentations/html/paper-fb-macosx.html


hth, marcus

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