Re: [cobalt-developers] Interbase Activation Problem

["William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew,
	The Cobalt's ship with InterBase Classic Server edition. That version does not work 
with the IBConsole. You will need to uninstall that version and install the Super 
Server version. That will work with IBConsole.

The Super Server version does not use the inetd to start interbase. Ibmgr handles 
that aspect when you run it from command line. There are also examples of how to 
make a startup script for IB SS in the pdf documentation that you have to download 
seperate from the software itself.

Good luck hope that helps.

Also FYI, if you do decide to look into IB SS, check out Firebird. Borland did open 
source version 6 of Interbase but beyond that it does not seem to be supported and 
on a constant state of improvements like most open source projects.

Firebird is a DB based on IB 6, but has some advantages, like people are constantly 
improving it. IT is supposed to be a directly replacement of IB and works with the 
same DB format. You can find out more here
http://www.ibphoenix.com

Andrew Dixon - Clickit Studios wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've activated Interbase on our Cobalt RaQ4 the way shown in Sun Cobalt 
> Knowledgebase. However, I can't connect to it using the IBConsole for 
> Windows.
>
> Firstly, is there a way I can to the database via telnet to check it is 
> running?
> Secondly, any ideas why I can't connect via the IBConsole?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Best Regards
>         >>> Andrew
>
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William L. Thomson Jr.
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