FreeBSD 6.1 & Firebird

[John Koller]

On Friday 30 June 2006 07:49, Aleks wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Yesterday I tried several times to setup a Firebird Server on a
> freshly installed FreeBSD 6.1 and connect to the example fdb via
> network, but with no success.
[snip]
> # isql
> Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify database
> SQL> connect '/usr/local/share/examples/firebird/employee.fdb' user
[snip]
> SQL> connect 'localhost:/usr/local/share/examples/firebird/employee.fdb'
> user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey';
> Statement failed, SQLCODE =-902
>
> I/O error for file "/usr/local/share/examples/employee.fdb"
> -Error while trying to open file
> -No such file or directory
> SQL> quit;

Is the error message from the example listed or from different attempts that 
you pasted together? 

What are the permissions for /usr/local/share/examples/firebird/employee.fdb?

Can you create a database with
create database 'localhost:/var/db/firebird/test.fdb';
?

-- 
John Koller