Valdir Stiebe Junior wrote:

> This is my last question about this subject, I hope. : )
>
> I have one firebird normal installation. (by normal installation I
> mean that it was installed using the firebird installer)
>
> Now I registered another service, with different name, wich point to
> other fbserver.exe copy. In this second copy, the firebird.conf is set
> with other port than 3050.
>
> When I try to start my new service, it is stopped, and add a line in
> firebird.log of the first installation complaning that there is
> another firebird instance already running.
>
> If I stop the first firebird server, the new one start, but using the
> port of the first server.
>
> It looks like my new firebird instance is ignoring the firebird.conf
> and is using the firebird.conf of the normal installation.
>
> How can I avoid this?
> --
> Valdir Stiebe Junior.
> Dype Soluções.
>

Look in the registry and remove en entry for Firebird.

It worked for me when I was testing 1.5 and 2.0 on the same machine
just rename the regstry entry, or make a back-up so you can put it back
if necessary

see you !

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Alexandre Benson Smith
Development
THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
www.thorsoftware.com.br