2009/4/27 Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...>:

>
> Well, I've never had the "privilege" to administer any "real" servers,
> just my own workstations. But hey have often had a lot of services
> running when I've changed the hostname. I've never seen any problems
> with it.
>
> Frankly, I would have expected Firebird to detect this and act
> accordingly, even it it were forcing an immediate shutdown.
>
> But I wouldn't know the problems involved of course. Development wise I
> mean.
>
> My point is that maybe it's not all that strange that someone, e.g.
> Nick, would be unaware that there's a risk involved in doing what he
> did. It's not obvious.
>
> Kjell
> --

in my defense, I didn't do it but my collegue did thinking that the
system would handle it (and the os did AFAIK)