>But, there is no guardian in Classic, and fb_inet_server is
>part of classic.

Do I understand it correctly that if you have installed classic then
guardian has no effect if a fb_inet_server.exe crashes?

We only install classic and we have a guardian process running, or am I
missing something ...

Does this also mean that if you have classic installed that shutting down
guardian will not kill the fb_inet_server.exe processes running elegantly?

Peter Ypenburg
AGM: Product Development
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-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ann W. Harrison
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:35 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Can I corrupt a database by just
stoppingfirebird guardian while many processes are running.

Peter Ypenburg wrote:

> The following code is in a bat file written by someone and I am concerned
> about the impact it will have on our database:
> ***********Bat file code start***************
>
> REM *** removes the fb_inet_server process from the task manager
> pskill fb_inet_server.exe

Unh, you're not killing the guardian, you're killing the actual server.
If you're using forced writes, that shouldn't corrupt the database,
but it's not a nice thing to do. If there's a bug anywhere in our write
sequencing, that procedure will reveal it by corrupting the database.
Not that anyone whose ever worked on Firebird or InterBase every wrote a
line of code that wasn't perfect...

Cheers,


Ann

The guardian is a utility program associated with SuperServer that
watches for serve death and restarts the server if that happens. In
theory, the server should never crash and the guardian should never be
needed. In practice, things don't always follow theory, so having a
guardian around is a good idea. The developers will tell you it
protects you from errors in UDF's. It also protects you from our
errors. But, there is no guardian in Classic, and fb_inet_server is
part of classic.



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