From 9610dac1301f7611e1f10d6f6bc3eb3a252fc9b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Clint Armstrong <clint@clintarmstrong.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:25:00 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] mysql ping with reconnect

---
 poller-service.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/poller-service.py b/poller-service.py
index a11064e3f..61dcc84cf 100755
--- a/poller-service.py
+++ b/poller-service.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class DB:
         else:
             self.conn = MySQLdb.connect(host=db_server, port=db_port, user=db_username, passwd=db_password, db=db_dbname)
         self.conn.autocommit(True)
+        self.conn.ping(True)
 
     def query(self, sql):
         try: