Hi,

> I'm creating a new fbserver.exe service instance using the win32 API.
> The name and the displayname of this new service is a custom name of
> my own. And the firebird.conf for this fbserver.exe was changed to use
> other port than 3050.
>
> My doub is: There is any sense in creating a new service for
> fbguard.exe? How this new fbguard instance will know wich fbserver is
> the one it should guard? It just verify from times to times if there
> is a fbserver alive on the port specified at firebird.conf?

If you're using W2K or up, then don't bother - the guardian isn't
needed.

What the guardian does, is re-starting Firebird if it fails. Now, there
are two things to remember:

1 - the database service shouldn't crash.

2 - Win2K and up already have a mechanism in the ServicesAPI to
tell Windows to automatically restart the service. Use that instead.

Martijn Tonies
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