Hi,

I've some applications, written in Delphi 7 using the IntraWeb (& TMSIntraWeb) components and running as an Apache dll under Windows 2000.

I notice after some time of no activity, the database shuts down. Is there a way to configure FireBird (and/or Apache) never to shut down, even if there are no active connections?

Or must I rather in the in the process (IntraWeb server controller) try to keep the database connection alive by occasionally access one record in a table?

In the firebird.conf file, I noteced the following comments:

# Normally, Firebird uses SO_KEEPALIVE socket option to keep track of
# active connections. If you do not like default 2-hour keepalive timeout
# then adjust your server OS settings appropriately. On UNIX-like OS's,
# modify contents of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_*. On Windows,
# follow instrutions of this article:
# http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=140325

Is this something to look at?

(I use the installation defaults of Apache and FireBird 1.5)


Regards,

Nols Smit



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