At 07:15 AM 30/10/2004 +0000, you wrote:

> > As a rule, you should be very loath to stop the server
> > arbitrarily. Databases should be shut down first; otherwise users'
>pending
> > work could be lost.
>
>Yes, I am running the firebirddb as an application and I need to stop
>it progmatically without any manual intervention. I can shutdown the
>database using something like this,
>
>gfix -shut -user <username> -password <password> <databasename>
>
>This shutdown only the database and not the database server listening
>in the port 3050. How do I solve this ? Please Help

Well, I think you have the wrong server installed. If you use the Classic
server, you don't have to worry about starting or shutting down, running as
application/service or any of that claptrap. Classic starts when an
application connects to it and shuts down when the application disconnects.

I'm sure that SS on Linux is not designed to be used as you are trying to
use it.

./heLen