--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 01:53 PM 23/06/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "waynebrsa" <wayne@c...>
> >wrote:
> > > What is the Guardian used for?
> > >
> > > Do i need it?
> >
> >Does No body know the answer?
>
> Yeah. Do you expect a two-minute response time on this list?
>
> On Superserver, Guardian restarts the server if it crashes. Since

you can

> also set up services on Win2K and WinXP to restart automatically if

they

> crash, you don't really need Guardian at all for services on these
> platforms. On an unattended NT4 server it's a good idea to run it.
>
> When you run the server as an application (as you have to do on

Win98 or

> you might be silly enough to do on the others) then Guardian is

also a good

> idea.
>
> /heLen

Thanks... if i select shutdown on the guardian's right click menu the
guardian icon disapears and there is no way to restart it?
Is this normal?
Even if i go an start the services manually, applications like
IBexpert reports that here is no database? I tried to go to firebird
bin dir - and tried to start the guardian from there - no response?
The control panel applit tells me that the services are running but
it has a big red cross through the picture. The only way to get the
guardian back is via a restart.

>Do you expect a two-minute response time on this list?

Well it got your attention(was an hour) - he he:)

But thank you very much.