Not if he's set the vars that disable pinging... Also, I've found that (in the past) sometimes the ping done by Apache::DBI for MySQL doesn't always repsond cause reconnection (though, this was many versions ago).
-----Original Message----- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:52 PM To: Kreimendahl, Chad J Cc: David Hofmann; Modperl List Subject: RE: Apache::DBI Connection Lost On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:43, Kreimendahl, Chad J wrote: > Simple answer... do a $dbh->ping ... if unresponsive, reconnect. He's already using Apache::DBI, and that's exactly what it does. - Perrin -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html