Hi Helen,

>> I confess I haven't looked. But what I'll do is update the
>> v.2.0.5 and 2.1.3 releasenotes and put up fresh PDFs and
>> HTML. Will also do fresh checkins of the Utilities chapters
>> of both vols

I think I've got it correct - the examples seem to have worked anyway!
This is from the online docs for gfix:

<QUOTE>
New Startup and Shutdown States in Firebird 2.0

The above discussion of stopping and starting a database apply to all
versions of the server up to version 2.0. From 2.0 the commands will
work as described above, but a new state has been added to define
exactly how the database is to be stopped or started. The commands
change from those described above to the following:

gfix -shut STATE OPTION TIMEOUT database_name

gfix -o[nline] STATE database_name

STATE is new in Firebird 2.0 and is one of the following:

* normal - This is the default state for starting the database
backup. It allows connections from any authorised users - not just
SYSDBA or the database owner. This option is not accepted for shutdown
operations.
* multi - this is the default mode as described above. When the
database is shutdown as above, or using the multi state, then unlimited
connections can be made by the SYSDBA or the database owner. No other
connections are allowed.
* single - Similar to the multi option above, but only one SYSDBA or
database owner connection is allowed.
* full - Shutdown and don't allow any connections from anyone, even
SYSDBA or the database owner. This is not an acceptable option for
starting up a database.

...

</QUOTE>

The above looks similar, but not identical, to the 2.1 release notes -
but it all works fine for me. Or did, when I wrote the above anyway!


Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar
Contract Oracle DBA
CIS Engineering Services
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