a. This is plan B.
b. It's very creative, but ugly... :)

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Milan Babuskov <milanb@...> wrote:
>
> ma_golyo wrote:
> > To stat a new customer we have to
> > #1 : copy the app to new folder (win)
> > #2 : copy the initial DB to new folder (linux)
> > #3 : update inital DB metadata to current app version
> >
> > I'm writing (Delphi) app which does the steps above. App runs on the terminal (win) server.
> > #1 : OK
> > #2 : not OK. I cannot create new DB with FB, and I cannot restore a DB with GBAK to a non existing directory.
>
> I'm not sure about Delphi's capabilities here, but I see two possible
> solutions:
>
> a) log into Linux using SSH protocol and create directory using the
> system mkdir command with --parents switch. Then set up privileges with
> chown and chmod.
>
> b) write small Linux UDF that creates directories, register it in some
> database (employee.fdb for example) and call it from code:
>
> db.Query("select createDir("/path/on/linux") from rdb$database");
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Milan Babuskov
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