MAC Database Server Doesnt Start

[spongebob]

Hi Forum,

OSX 10.4.11 FM Server 9.02.151

In the Admin interface the Database Server is not started and fails to start if I try to click on the icon.

What could it be or how could I find out why it fails to start?

When I click on "Databases" for example it says "The Database Server is not available."

Any tipps? It used to work fine...

thanks

[Wim Decorte]

Check the event.log file in the FMS logs folder, it will give more detail as to what is going wrong. Also try the fmsadmin command line from terminal: fmsadmin start server

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Hi Forum,

OSX 10.4.11 FM Server 9.02.151

In the Admin interface the Database Server is not started and fails to start if I try to click on the icon.

What could it be or how could I find out why it fails to start?

When I click on "Databases" for example it says "The Database Server is not available."

Any tipps? It used to work fine...

thanks

From the Terminal have you started the wrapper daemon? The Console only starts the administrative portion of FileMaker Server.

sudo launchctl start com.filemaker.fms

Use of the sudo command requires authentication.

Steven

[spongebob]

Thank You.

In the end it was a permissions problem.

The Repair Permissions seemed to have changed the permissionon one folder and as a result the server no longer started. I noticed it because 2 of the folders in the Filemaker Folder had little red "no entry" signs on them which they didnt before.

First I tried a restart, that on its own did not help (in fact I tried two).

I then reset the permissions on the folders (from terminal with chmod 755) and did another restart and the server started okay and its working again.

One folder had the wrong group name on it as well (which you can see with ls -l)

I do wonder if it really was that, but it seemed to work.

Thanks again for the kind suggestions. If it happens again Ill try that first!

[Steven H. Blackwell]

BTW, upgrade your FMS version to 9.0v3.

Steven