FBGUARD(8)

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✨ FBGUARD(8) ✨

okay so bestie, meet fbguard — part of the Firebird docs fam, section 8 of the manual (yes, the sysadmin one, very grown-up of it). she's the Firebird guardian and honestly? she's the friend who holds your hair back and also restarts your database. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

fbguard — start and restart firebid server 🦋

(and yes, that's firebid spelled exactly like that, we don't touch the original's typo energy, we respect the source 💖)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fbguard -forever [option...]  (default)
fbguard -onetime [option...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

fbguard is the Firebird guardian. Her whole personality is: she starts the Firebird super- or superclassic server, and if it crashes, she restarts it. that's it. that's the vibe. she is literally the "I got you" of processes. 🫶

👑 COMMANDS 👑

  • -forever — keep restarting the Firebird server forever 🌈. this is the default if you give no command at all, so if you just run it with nothing, congrats, you picked this one by doing nothing. main character energy fr fr.
  • -onetime — the exact opposite of -forever. if the Firebird server crashes, she does not restart it. one and done, she's out. 💀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -daemon — detach from the controlling terminal. she ghosts the terminal, no goodbye text, iconic. 🙈
  • -pidfile filename — write the PID of thee started firebird server to the specified file. (the "thee" is the original's, we're keeping it, it's giving renaissance fair 🎀) so you get a little file that tells you which process it is.
  • -signore — ignore startup errors. 🫣
⚠️ bestie, listen: combining -signore with -forever can lead to an endless loop in case there is some problem that prevents the Firebird server from starting. that's not a vibe. that's a CPU-burning catastrophe. do not do this unless you enjoy chaos. 😭

Copyright (C) Damyan Ivanov, 2009.

This manpage was written by Damyan Ivanov for the Debian project but may be used by others. Permission is granted to use this document, with or without modifications, provided that this notice is retained. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. 🍓

aaaand that's the whole page bestie ✨ this was Firebird 4.0, dated 2026-06-28, filed under FBGUARD(8). go start your server, she's got you 🦋💖🎀

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