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

It's possible that you are seeing MySQL's auto-reconnect feature. See the DBD::mysql docs for more info on how to disable this.
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