[Firebird-devel] incomplete entries in Eventlog (Win32)

[Achim K. <ach...@wi...>]

Hi,

I'm using Firebird 1.5rc4 on Win2k. The Windows Eventlog shows entries
like this:

| The description for Event ID (251) in Source (FirebirdGuardian)
| cannot be found. The local computer may not have the
| necessary registry information or message DLL files to
| display messages from a remote computer. The following
| information is part of the event:
| Server Started: Guardian starting:
| D:\App32\database\FB15RC4\bin\fbserver.exe=C3z.
                                            ^^
                                 (Possible Null terminator missing?)

This is caused by an uncomplete registration of fbguard.exe; the
information where Eventlog could find the message resource file is
missing. On installation (instreg), the service has to create a registry =
key

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\Application\FirdbirdGuard=
ian

and set two values:

  EventMessageFile REG_SZ     'PathToMessageFile'
  TypesSupported   REG_DWORD  7

'PathToMessageFile' needs to be a fully qualified path either to the
application/service itself (if message resource is contained in exe), or
to a DLL providing the message table.

With an resource editor, I tried to locate thoses message tables in
fbserver.exe and fbguard.exe, but did not found any. (just curious: All
version information in fbserver/fbguard have swedish language IDs.)

For testing, I've created a simple message file just containing IDs 0,
251 and 261 with message "%1". After tweaking registry to point
EventMessageFile to my file, the Eventlog now shows this:

| Server Started: Guardian starting:
| D:\App32\database\FB15RC4\bin\fbserver.exe=C3z

That looks well (except missing terminator).

For creating a messagetable resource, see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tools/tools/messagetable_resource=
=2Easp

Regards
Achim