On 16/7/08 7:59 AM, "Terry Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16/7/08 7:50 AM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 7/15/08 4:13 PM, "Terry Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I have a 'startup' routine that checks to see whether my mySQL database is >>> online. The problem if that when it isn't it hangs for 75 seconds. Is there >>> a way to specify a (much) shorter timeout interval? >> >> How are you checking? Are you using the mysqladmin "ping" command? Oh and >> what platform(s) are you doing this on? > > Hi Ken - Nothing as fancy as that. I'm just using revOpenDatabase to get a > connection ID. If either I or the database are offline I get the spinning > pizza (Mac OSX) for a full 75 seconds before it returns a 'Can't connect to > Mysql' error. Hmm, seems like sockettimeoutinterval doesn't work with revDB functions. There is a web server on the same box as the mySQL server so I guess I can set the sockettimoutinterval to something small and try to get a url from that. If it's offline then mySQL will probably be as well. Terry... > > Terry... >> >> >> Ken Ray >> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- Dr Terry Judd Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design) Biomedical Multimedia Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3052 AUSTRALIA 61-3 8344 0187 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
