Problems with Firebird on Linux

[Riccardino]

Hi,

I'm having a lot of problems installing firebird on Mandrake 9.1.
I tried with several builds, but I can't make it work.

Is there a package that can perform an easy installation?
I know my question may sound naif, but I'm a mac user, and Linux is an alien territory

[Jan Aleman]

I'm not a mandrake expert but as far as I know mandrake also comes with rpm. Download

FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-0.i386.rpm

from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... up_id=9028

become root
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rpm -ivf FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-0.i386.rpm

[Riccardino]

I'm not a mandrake expert but as far as I know mandrake also comes with rpm. Download

FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-0.i386.rpm

from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... up_id=9028

become root
type

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rpm -ivf FirebirdCS-1.0.3.972-0.i386.rpm

I did it, but firebird server refuses to start. It seems that problems come from having the files into the opt folder. I tried copying the firebird.xinetd file to /etc/xinetd.d but if I try to launch the server, using:
/etc/init.d/firebird start
I always get a "no such file or directory" message.

[IT2Be]

I had the exact same issue. And wasn't patient enough.

When I read the readme again I found out that I had to change the initd and (if I am correct since I write this by heart) the setup file. It is in the section where they talk about problems with running firebird.

I did exactly what they described and restarted the initd file. After that the db (server) ran like a charm... And still runs!

Suxes

[Riccardino]

I had the exact same issue. And wasn't patient enough.

When I read the readme again I found out that I had to change the initd and (if I am correct since I write this by heart) the setup file. It is in the section where they talk about problems with running firebird.

I did exactly what they described and restarted the initd file. After that the db (server) ran like a charm... And still runs!

Suxes

I'll try again: thanks

[IT2Be]

I did it, but firebird server refuses to start. It seems that problems come from having the files into the opt folder. I tried copying the firebird.xinetd file to /etc/xinetd.d but if I try to launch the server, using:
/etc/init.d/firebird start
I always get a "no such file or directory" message.

Not to offend you and I am really not an expert (can hardly handle my SuSe 8.2 install) and I don't know it this was intentionally but you talk about xinetd.d and init.d.

If I am correct you use either one of them. With initd you have to change the file, with xinetd you have to drop a file. But they work differently. Don't know which one Mandrake (or your install) uses...
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[Riccardino]

Not to offend you and I am really not an expert (can hardly handle my SuSe 8.2 install) and I don't know it this was intentionally but you talk about xinetd.d and init.d.

If I am correct you use either one of them. With initd you have to change the file, with xinetd you have to drop a file. But they work differently. Don't know which one Mandrake (or your install) uses...

No offense at all.
I know almost nothing about Linux, but my customer bought a Linux box and he wants to use it as Servoy server too, so I'm doing some test on my mail server, that uses the same distribution, but - as you can see - I didn't go too far
I'll try to start each one of the two files and see what happens.

Thanks

[Bert]

I know almost nothing about Linux, but my customer bought a Linux box and he wants to use it as Servoy server too, so I'm doing some test on my mail server, that uses the same distribution, but - as you can see - I didn't go too far
I'll try to start each one of the two files and see what happens.

Hi Riccardino,
I've got two questions:
1. What are the reasons why your customer wants to deploy Servoy on Linux?
2. Can you share your testresults with Servoy on Linux (Mandrake) with us?

Thanks...

[Riccardino]

Hi Riccardino,
I've got two questions:
1. What are the reasons why your customer wants to deploy Servoy on Linux?
2. Can you share your testresults with Servoy on Linux (Mandrake) with us?

Thanks...

1) Because they've a Linux box, working as mail server, with Mandrake 9.1 installed. The alternative, for me, is to use one of their production machine (Powermac G4) to run Servoy server and use the Linux box to serve MySQL tables. I thought it would be simpler to let the linux server take care of everything.
2) Certainly. I'll keep you posted.

[Bert]

I thought it would be simpler to let the linux server take care of everything.

One last question: what are the specifications of the Linux Box, like processor, systembus(speed), amount of RAM, diskspeed etc.

Thanks again...

[Jan Blok]

see developer/server manuals

[Odysseus]

Hi guys,

trying to bring to live Servoy on SUSE 8.2 with Firebird 1.5 I get the following error when trying to update the repository. Would it have to do with the (brand new) firebird version ?

[jcompagner]

yes is a know problem with firebird 1.5.
Doesn't work currently with servoy, is being looked at .

[Riccardino]

One last question: what are the specifications of the Linux Box, like processor, systembus(speed), amount of RAM, diskspeed etc.

Thanks again...

Ok: We got it. The speed is good and the customer seems satisfied

Distribution: Mandrake 9.1

Servoy box: http://www.zejack.com/article/barebone/ ... ss51g.html

Software RAID with 2 120 GB 7200/rpm IBM disks

Processor: Pentium 4 2,4GHz

[IT2Be]

Riccardino, what was the problem/solution in the end?