Milan Babuskov wrote:

> 4. I saved the best for last:
>
> Do a simple system call to get full path to running Firebird server:
> ps -eo "%a" | grep fbserver
>
> In the string you get, just replace fbserver with isql and you're done. The
> only problem with this approach is that Firebird has to be running. I don't
> know if it is an issue for your setup?

I shall save that little gem to use latter. Actually it answers another
problem :) If Firebird is NOT running then the connection will fail
after creating the database and I can say why.

Now a windows version of that could be useful ;)

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