Bug#272380: [Pkg-firebird-general] Bug#272380: firebird2-super-server and hosts file(s)

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:28:55PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Hi, Daniel,
> 
> I finally succeeded in reproducing the problem you describe and I think I've
> found the reason.
> 
> Firebird-SS uses /etc/hosts.equuiv for some form of authentication and needs
> the primary host name there.
> 
> I've got your symptoms when I've changed the primary host name in /etc/hosts from
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost localhost.localdomain
> 
> to
> 
> 127.0.0.1	debian.example.org localhost localhost.localdomain
> 
> Addind debian.example.org to /etc/hosts.equiv solved the problem.
> 
> Does this make any sense to your situation?
> 

Uhm, incidentally that's no requirements about contents of /etc/hosts,
but for a few old-days conventions. I would skip the hosts.equiv check
with a suitable patch. It is basically a non-sense currently as all 
the rcommands related things...

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Francesco P. Lovergine