Thanks for the advice.

The complete httpd.conf is included in my question--I reduced it to the nine lines or so in an attempt to eliminate that question.

I also grepped keys %INC for Apache and found nothing in there in the script--is that sufficient to be sure that Apache::DBI is not the culprit?

I am working on DBI->trace output now to see if I get any clues out of that output.

One interesting thing is that I replaced the code with one that explicitly undefs the $dbh, and that seemed to disconnect ok (which would probably be a sufficient workaround). But when I put it in an if branch so I could set a variable to decide whether to try undef()ing or disconnect()ing, both undef() and disconnect() appeared to work.

I am currently trying to figure out if that is really what is happening, I will post here with results.

Thanks again for your input.

In reply to Re^2: disconnect, then ping returns true under apache, false from command line, no Apache::DBI around. Why would this be? by msouth
in thread disconnect, then ping returns true under apache, false from command line, no Apache::DBI around. Why would this be? by msouth

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