> It can (apparently) happen if you have guardian installed
> alongside classic server. The most recent versions of 1.5
> don't offer you the check box to install guardian if you
> select classic server, but they used do.

No guardian installed... but I may have Windows setup to
auto-restart the service (I did with Superserver, need to
check what I've done with the classic install).

Thanks for the pointer.

> If you have source code for the clients, you can devise a
> crude but effective tracking into the database itself.

> Write a UDF that returns the current process ID to Firebird.

...

Great idea, thanks for that. I already have most of what is
needed to do this so it would not take much to set it up.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing