Is there a way to determine if a database is online? Specifically if it's not in "full shutdown" mode.
Using gstat requires running as root or the firebird user according to the docs:
gstat-fb -header "$db" | grep -E 'Attributes.+full shutdown'
Returns with "Permission denied".
I came up with this but surely there's a better way:
re='^Target shutdown mode is invalid for database'
ret=$(gfix -USER "$usr" -PAS "$pwd" -shut full -tran 5 localhost:"$db" 2>&1)
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
printf "Info: database '%s' has been shutdown\n" "$db"
else
if [[ $ret =~ $re ]]; then
printf "Info: database '%s' was already in full shutdown mode\n" "$db"
else
printf "Error: couldn't stop database '%s': '%s'\n" "$db" "${ret//$'\n'/ }" 1>&2
return 1
fi
fi
return 0
Firebird Version: 2.5
