I'm a little bit surprised to be reading about a log file. Until now, I've
been thinking that, because of Firebird's multi-generational architecture,
there's no need for log files. (In my past, I have worked with databases
that logged before images for recovery purposes.)

It's clear that my assumption is wrong. Could anyone spare a few minutes to
explain to me what Firebird is using a log file for? I can't find any trace
of a firebird.log file on my Mac OS X system. Is it present only on certain
platforms, or with a particular Firebird configuration (eg. CS, SS,
embedded)?

Thanks,

Andrew

On 8/6/05 7:48 am, "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...> wrote:

> At 11:44 AM 8/06/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to limit the firebird.log size? In three of our clients
>> the file has grown a lot (up to 3.5 GB), so we would like to limit its
>> size.
>
> You can delete the log file any time the Firebird server is not
> running. If you think you need to archive the logs, you could run a batch
> job on the host machine each night to zip up the day's log file and archive
> it; then delete the file. The server will automatically start a new log
> next time it starts up.
>
> ./heLen
>
>
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> Visit http://firebird.sourceforge.net and click the Resources item
> on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links !
>
> Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com
>
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>
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