Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Installing FireBird without the Guardian |
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Author | Helen Borrie |
Post date | 2008-02-27T23:57:39Z |
At 09:28 AM 28/02/2008, you wrote:
./heLen
>Hello:There are switches for the instsvc.exe call. See README.instsvc in your $firebird$/doc folder.
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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.
>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