Firebird2.0?

[Michael Beattie]

On 11/16/06, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/11/06, Michael Beattie <mtbeedee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > As for the isql thing... page 21 of this guide
> >
> http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-2.0-QuickStart.pdf
> >
> > says to get into the shell, just type "isql".  When I do that, I get
> >
> > $ isql
>
>
> Are you sure that that this isql command is being picked up from the bin
> subdirectory of your firebird installation?
>
>

You are right.  I didnt consider that there would be two separate
applications that use the same name for 2 different tools.

> > and for the test database:
> >
> > $ cat aliases.conf
> > #
> > # List of known database aliases
> > # ------------------------------
> > #
> > # Example Databases:
> > #
> >
> > employee.fdb = /var/lib/firebird2/data/employee.fdb
> >
> >
> > $sudo ls -l /var/lib/firebird2/data
> > Password:
> > total 0
> > -rw-rw---- 1 firebird firebird 0 2006-09-28 11:03 no_empty
> >
>
> The manual constantly refers to the examples/empbuild subdirectory of your
> firebird installation; perhaps this alias has been set up incorrectly in
> this distribution.
>
> --

That aliases is from my /etc/firebird2 directory