MYSQL timeout

[Terry Judd]

The problem of lengthy timeouts when trying to connect to a MSQL server that
is down/offline is bugging me again. It seems like the default timeout is 60
seconds which is way too long to wait for a response but there's no obvious
way to override it. The socketTimeoutInterval has no effect and while I've
got some old code laying around that suggests setting an environment
variable ($MYSQL_CLIENT_TIMEOUT) it doesn't work either.

Any ideas?

Terry...

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Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Education Unit
Melbourne Medical School
The University of Melbourne