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

>
> At 12:47 PM 25/10/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >./heLen, please, let me come and worship at your feet.
>
> Hmm, haven't made my mind up about foot-worship yet. :-)

I wasn't offering to worhip your feet, only to worship _at_ your feet ;)

> >, and does the -se
> >localhost:service_mgr force xinetd usage?
>
> Yes, since gbak in this case connects using libfbclient.so and

passes its

> commands to service_mgr (a kind of service-access layer that dwells

in the

> fb_inet_server process), not to the database file. There are two

clients -

> libfbembed.so and libfbclient.so. It is the libfbembed.so client

(which

> embeds all that server-side stuff) that gbak uses as its client for

direct

> access; and libfbembed.so can't make network connections.

Thanks, I found the relevent bits in your book an it became obvious
why this works better.

> >If you are UK based I'll buy you a drink nect time I'm in your area.
>
> I'm not. :-) Thirsty weather here today, though, 32 deg. C by midday,
> humid, with thunderstorms rumbling all about.

It's cold, wet and miserable here!

Steve