At 07:16 PM 12/02/2009, you wrote:

>I received a firebird.log from a customer today, which contained these
>lines:
>
>> XXXXXXX (Client) Tue Nov 04 13:08:19 2008
>> C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe: normal shutdown
>>
>>
>> XXXXXXX (Client) Tue Nov 04 13:08:19 2008
>> Control services error 1061
>
>Does anybody know what "Control services error 1061" means? Where can
>I look that up?
>
>Other than that, the database runs fine and it came up with no
>problems a few seconds later:
>
>> XXXXXXX (Client) Tue Nov 04 13:08:22 2008
>> Guardian starting: C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\fbserver.exe

It means Windows pleases itself about the order in which it starts services. You get that error (usually) at bootup, when the Firebird service starts before the network services are up and running.

./heLen