Re: DBI connect timeout question

am not into dbi sorry; however you could try setting INFORMIXCONRETRY INFORMIXCONTIME env vars; afaik the default for INFORMIXCONRETRY is 3and for INFORMIXCONTIME is 60 secs... hope it helps Superboer. dkosenko@hotmail.com (Dave Kosenko) wrote in message news:<d9d3b2cf.0408301022.67339b3b@posting.google.com>... > I'm using DBI to write a monitoring program for our informix > servers. Problem I am running into is that if the database server > (to which I am always connecting via a tcp connection) is down > completely, the connect() takes a very long time before it returns. > The same server in quiescent mode returns quite quickly, as > expected. My question: Is there a parameter or other setting that > can be used to have the connect return more quickly, i.e. some > sort of timeout value? I tried using an alarm(), but the connect > appear to ignore the alarm. > > Thanks, > Dave