MailWatch - Database Ping Error?

[Gerry Doris]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Gerry Doris wrote:

> I upgraded my server from RH9 to Fedora this evening and have run into a
> minor problem.
>
> I'm now seeing entries in /var/log/maillog that state "Database ping
> failure, attempting to reconnect".  There aren't that many of them but I
> can't understand where they're coming from.
>
> Has anyone noticed anything like this?
>
> --
> Gerry

I hate to answer my own question but just after I sent the message I found
the solution in the archives.

DBD-mysql was at too high a level after the upgrade.  I moved it back to
DBD-mysql-2.1028 and the problem went away.

--
Gerry

"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer