Why not ask your application to exit rather than your users? I would
guess events combined with a table could be used for this (though you'll
need to modify your application).

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rodbracher wrote:

> This is surely a huge limitation.
>
> We have users running our app over an entire country.
>
> It is impossible to call them all up and to ask them to exit the
> application before a backup restore.
>
> We need to run classic server as it is a Linux environment.
>
> I think it would be dangerous to kill all the fb procs on an OS level?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rod
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov wrote:
>> rodbracher wrote:
>>> I am trying to shutdown a database for all current connections and new
>>> ones. When I execute gfix -shut -force 5 -user xxx -password yyy /xxx/zzz.gdb
>>> Using FB 1.5.3 Classic, Linux
>> AFAIK, what you're trying to accomplish is only possible with SuperServer.