Subject Re: [firebird-support] Installing FireBird without the Guardian
Author Helen Borrie
At 09:28 AM 28/02/2008, you wrote:
>Hello:
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>I have an application which uses FireBird 2.0 and I made an installer using Inno Setup. From my installer I run FireBird installation (Firebird-2.0.1.12810-0-Win32.exe) using the parameters I read in the file "installation_scripted.txt" (/SP-, /VERYSILENT, etc.).
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>As I read in "The FireBird FAQ" (http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq31/), in Windows (XP, 2000, etc.) we can (and even it is recommended) not to use the FireBird Guardian and to configure FireBird as a service to be started automatically by Windows.
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>But the FireBird installation I run using Inno Setup always installs the Guardian and I did´t found any parameter in "installation_scripted.txt" to avoid this. So my questions are:
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>1. Is there a parameter to tell the FireBird Installer not to install the Guardian.

There are switches for the instsvc.exe call. See README.instsvc in your $firebird$/doc folder.


>2. Is there a parameter to tell the FireBird Installer to set the FireBird service to be started automatically by Windows (and not to set it Manually as it does).

All in the documentation above.

./heLen