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Although I understand what the MySQL server has gone away error means from a mySQL point of view, I would like to know how to resolve it from a Perl DBI point of view. My script works perfectly through CGI, but putting it into mod_perl causes the error if there's no activity for 8 hours. The problem really is that I can't make any changes to mySQL (ISP restrictions, etc), and from what I've seen, Apache::DBI keeps the sessions alive, so obviously DBI still thinks it's alive, but mySQL has dropped the connection already.

Thank you fellow monks. 

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In reply to MySQL server has gone away by Massyn

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