At 04:34 PM 22/07/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>H
> > regular connection strings:
> > winserver:c:\data\MyBelovedDb.fdb
> > linserver:/opt/databases/penguindb.fdb
> >
> > become
> >
> > winserver:db1
> > linserver:db2
> >
> > You need to restart the server to have the aliases take effect.
>
>Thanks for pointing that out. That's a useful feature, which should
>simplify our
>installation.
>
>Do you need to reboot the machine, or just shutdown and restart firebird?

Just restart the firebird server.

>If so,
>what is the proecdure for restarting firebird under XP?

Running as a service:
Currently (no updated CPL for 1.5)
at command line:
net stop FirebirdServer

and, to restart
net start FirebirdServer

Or you can go to your Firebird root\bin directory and do

instsvc -stop

followed by

instsvc -start

Running as an application - whatever it takes to stop and start an
application in XP, e.g. use Task Manager to stop it and then double-click
on a shortcut or the exe file entry in Explorer to start up again.

The full release should have an updated service manager CPL.

cheers,
heLen