You can shutdown the database using Firebird's GFIX.

See http://www.destructor.de/firebird/gfix.htm for more details.

This may help.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Jocelyn Bernier
<jbernier@...> wrote:

>
> For some reasons out of my control, I need to close the Firebird during
> some overnight maintenance. I can't use the embedded server because my
> application can be on another machine.
>
> Per what I can see there is no solution to that. I don't want to kill
> the server process and I can't run Firebird as service. So I am stuck.
>
> Adam a écrit :
> >
> > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>, "Jocelyn Bernier"
> > <jbernier@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > I have an application using Firebird. I start Firebird in

application

> > > mode (-a parameter). When the user close my application I want to
> > > shutdown the server. I searched but didn't find the way. How can

I do

> > > that ?
> > >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Do you presume that your application is the only application on that
> > server that uses a Firebird backend, because shutting down the engine
> > will break any other application that needs a connection? Should you
> > make that presumption? I would recommend no.
> >
> > It sounds to me that your application is the only application using
> > that database. This sounds like a good candidate for delivering the
> > embedded Firebird model. In embedded, the Firebird engine runs within
> > your application process, so you don't need to worry about starting up
> > and shutting down a server process.
> >
> > Look at the quick start guide and the docs in the embedded kit (zip
> > file) for information.
> >
> > Adam
> >
> >
>
>
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