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Article #25802: How to get the Guardian service to start automatically when it's prevented by other software running as a service

Problem:
Ibserver/ibguardian not starting automatically:  On one occasion 
the ibserver and ibguardian were not starting up automatically 
even though they were configured for such in Control Panel|Services.
We were getting "username and password not defined" errors for the 
sysdba account which shouldn't happen. 

Solution:
The trouble was resolved by going to the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREInterBase CorpInterBaseCurrentVersion

and adding the string DefaultMode and giving it the value '-b' for 
high service startup priority. After rebooting the services started 
up automatically and I could see ibguardian's start listed in Event 
Viewer.  Interestingly, when I had given the string the '-r'  value 
for normal, I saw ibguardian automatically show up in event viewer 
with a red flag for the first time.

Last Modified: 28-SEP-00