[mythtv] Database server and pings (r14205)

[Nigel Pearson]

> Is it possible to ping the database the same way that mysqladmin does?
>  For example, when you run:
>
> mysqladmin ping -h HOST -u USER -pPASSWORD


Possible, but it doesn't fix the problem that
I was trying to detect using the ping test:


% time mysqladmin ping -h 127.0.0.2
mysqladmin: connect to server at '127.0.0.2' failed
error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server during query'
mysqladmin ping -h 127.0.0.2  0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 1:14.85  
total

%


Anything that uses TCP will take ages (minutes on most OSs).


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