At 02:16 PM 23/06/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>--- 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?

Well, if you have the system configured to have the guardian running, isn't
a bit silly to shut it down? You can go into the Services applet and
restart it there. Or, as Administrator, you can go to the command line and
use NET START FirebirdGuardianDefaultInstance

>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?

What response do you expect? But you can (if you must) set up a shortcut
and modify the command line to include the -s switch (that will start the
executable as a service).

>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.

A bold but untrue statement.

/heLen