I wrote:

>> The Firebird 3 installer script didn't put it there but possibly
>> FlameRobin or Jaybird did. Some client interfaces need to read
>> firebird.conf. It won't conflict with the server's firebird.conf, per
>> se, but it would pay to keep the one used by the client app consistent
>> with the one used by the server.

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 9:13:39 PM, Mark wrote:

> Jaybird doesn't install anything, and AFAIK, neither does Flamerobin do
> anything with with firebird.conf. It is more likely the layout of the
> specific firebird install on his Linux system.

More likely some other client app, then, as he seems to have installed
Firebird from the project package - since it is installed in
/opt/firebird.

FWIW, I'm on a Ubuntu-based Linux and their platform-specific Firebird
packages are a nightmare and usually horribly old. I always install
from our own tar.gz because it just works, it's the latest sub-release
and I don't get files being spread all over the system.

Helen