Subject Re: Win98 Start/Stop Server
Author federico_olivia
I need make a custom unistaller, for uninstall firebird i need stop
server (this is easy in wNT/2000 but not in w98) from my program.
This is the problem!
Any ideas?

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:
> At 02:17 PM 26/08/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >federico_olivia wrote:
> >
> > > I need start / stop server from command line in Win98.
> > > net stop/start not work.
> > > Any idea?
> >
> >Firebird only runs as an application on Win98 so the services
functions
> >are not available. You can stop it via the process list, but not
> >directly from the command line.
>
> However, if you are running Superserver and you can see the server
icon in
> the system tray, you can right click on it to shut down the server
(or the
> Guardian, if you have it taking care of things).
>
> But note, if you are using the machine as a server for remote
client,
> shutting down the server is not a cool idea...
>
> ./heLen