Rick,

> > Given that you could have TCP wrapper functionality enabled if you
> used inetd or xitend, why wouldn't you consider using that approach

for

> launching FB?
>
> Our database is not a network service. It will quite happily run

doing

> useful things (up to a point) if no one connects. So we want the
> database to start even with no connections.

A database can't do anything without a connection!

Maybe I'm missing something, but without some process establishing an
initial database connection, a database will do nothing.

After all, without the engine getting a connection request, the engine
will never be opened.

Further, without an open connection, the engine will close the database
file.


I think you are trying to hide something, but in fact it is making it
difficult to understand and solve your problem.


Sean