On 27/08/2020 11:48, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > 2020年8月27日(木) 23:28 Ian Lawrence Barwick <barw...@gmail.com>: >> 2020年8月25日(火) 18:02 Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel >> <firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>: >>> On 2020-08-25 05:07, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: >> (...) >>>> ./configure --prefix=/opt/firebird4 \ >>>> --with-editline \ >>> Almost for sure --with-system-editline will be better - builtin editline >>> is used in distributed binaries just to satisfy license. >> Thanks, noted. >> >> (...) >> >>>> Thanks for any pointers >>> You may use no-install approach - run where it was built. >> Aha, that would be fine. >> >>> Just add >>> SYSDBA user to security database in build dir (gen/Release/firebird) >>> >>> # cd gen/Release/firebird/bin >>> # ./isql employee >>> SQL> create user sysdba password 'masterkey'; >> That unfortunately doesn't work: >> >> $ ./isql employee >> Statement failed, SQLSTATE = 08006 >> Unable to complete network request to host "localhost". >> -Failed to establish a connection. >> Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database >> SQL> >> >> I tried this: >> >> $ FIREBIRD=/path/to/firebird/src/gen/Release/firebird/ ./bin/isql employee >> Statement failed, SQLSTATE = HY000 >> operating system directive access failed >> -Not a directory >> Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database >> >> (which seems necessary for the .msg file and presumably configuration files) >> and several variations, all with the same error message. >> >> I also tried hard-coding the employee and security database paths in >> the .conf files >> in the $FIREBIRD directory, no change. >> >> All files in the $FIREBIRD directory path are owned by the same (non-root) >> user. > OK, I can get it to work by using sudo; is it possible it's expecting > to run as a > different user (e.g. "firebird") rather than the user I compiled this with? > > If you have already a Firebird server installed, /tmp/firebird will need the firebird group, so your user must have that group.
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