kartinku wrote:

> In firebird there is an fbserver.exe that alone starts the firebird
> server. What is the purpose of having "fbguard.exe". I searched for
> documents but I was unable to get. If you have links/doc please do let
> me know about it.

Guardian simply protects Server on windows machines, which have no
restart facility for a service. If the server crashes, Guardian restarts
it so you can recover.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-1.5-QuickStart.pdf
Note on Page 7

> Moreover there are some more variety of tools such as gdef.exe etc.
> If you link/docs for all other tools also please do send me.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=guide&id=links
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_contrib_download

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