how to set a timeout or kill thread timeout ?

[nephish]

Hey there,
i have a rather long script that makes several connections to a MySQL database. Sometimes , if there is a problem with the script, or a bug in my code, or something else unexpected, the connections dont get closed. Is there a way that i can set MySQL to percieve when a thread has been idle for like 5 minutes and kill it for me? Like a timeout function.
i have googled and searched around here, but i am having trouble finding out just where to do this.
i have MySQL-Adminstrator and phpmyadmin that i can use if its any easier.
thanks

[thorpe]

Sxooter posted something that may be of interest to you in this thread.

hope it helps.

[nephish]

yep, quite good. thanks for the link !