> They connect to the DB from two programs which we have made.
> We use Delphi 5 ent.
> The first program uses INterbase Express comp and the other uses BDE.

I never did get BDE stable <g>

> This was in the Firebird log:
>
> DATABASE-SRV (Client) Sat Apr 05 13:44:11 2003
> C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\ibserver.exe: terminated abnormally (-1)
>
>
> DATABASE-SRV (Client) Sat Apr 05 13:44:12 2003
> Guardian starting: C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\ibserver.exe

Gardian has done it's job - if you just restarted the
applications, I would not have expected a problem

> SNIP
> Abnormal Termination: C:\Program Files\Firebird\bin\ibserver.exe:
> terminated abnormally (-1).

The firebird log is the best reference, translations of
errors are not reaching the windows log.

> To fix it, I did a backup via GBak, and afterwards a Restore via GBak.
> Then it was up and running again.

Did you need to? Was there a problem with the database?

> What I don't understand is, the error message.
> Where can I find information about them ?
>
> Does anyone know what I can mean ?

Exactly what it says - server crashed - gardian restarted it
- which is exactly why gardian is supplied on a windows system.

> Just the day before there servers was restarted.
> This was done, because they sometimes uses to Database server to
> another server job (not IB or FB).
> This job is rather old and uses some DOS things, which makes the
> server extremly slow.
> We have told our client to put this other server job on another
> server, but they havn't done this so fare.
> So we restarted all they servers to make sure no job was running whih
> could affect the servers in the weekends.

I did not stop these sorts of events untill I eliminated BDE
from the system!

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Lester Caine
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L.S.Caine Electronic Services