No, changes are seen as soon as aliases.conf is saved.
Note that in Windows7 you need to change security settings to enable the
user to save it - unless you do that as administrator.

Alan J Davies
Aldis

On 22/06/2011 23:39, gastrocus wrote:
> I was recently reading a document on backup/restore of Firebird
> (http://www.firebirdsql.org/pdfmanual/Firebird-gbak.pdf) and there was a
> paragraph on restoring where it made a recommendation:
>
> "For security, always recreate the database with a new name - a clone -
> and update the aliases.conf to reflect the new name."
>
> Reading this phrased this way, made me question, when does the Firebird
> Server (V2.5 ) recognize and pick up changes to the Aliases.conf file?
>
> My guess would be that I would need to stop and restart the server to do
> so. Is that correct?
>
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