[mythtv] Database server and pings (r14205)

[Nigel Pearson]

On 17/08/2007, at 2:37 PM, Rob Smith wrote:
> I would imagine we could do something akin to
>
> ping server
> if fail, run a connect with a really really fast timeout (15 seconds?)
> if that fails, then ask for db settings?

Apart from the 15s timeout, that is what we currently do.

I wanted to have the same timeout on the ping and telnet,
(er, connect), but was too lazy to use anything harder
than MythSocket::connect() in telnet().

If anyone has sufficient motivation to add a timeout code
to either of those, it would make misconfigured startups
just that bit nicer.

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