Thanks for all your answers.

I just wanted to make sure I understood everything correctly. The docs
are pretty scarce on this topic....
But it seems that I understood it :-)

Cheers
Thomas

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "ben_ata" <spam_eater@g...>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm playing around with Firebird, and I was wondering what fbguard.exe
> is for?
>
> My understanding is, that it will check if fbserver is alive, and if
> not, fbguard will restart fbserver.
>
> Everythings seems to work well, when I only start fbserver so I'm
> wondering if I really need fbguard. (It's just a desktop database for
> playing around a bit)
>
> Cheers
> Thomas