I then went away for a week....it was good...NH is much more relaxing than NYC.

However, I continue to be having an "issue". Because MT doesn't natively support mirroring, I have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes, checks for recent updates (via the database), and then rsyncs stuff out to the live machines if it has to. For some reasons, this script, as compared to every other place where I use our DB perl module (it handles connections, standardizes queries, etc) I'm getting an "Unable to connect to host" error. The only two things that are different here are that I'm connecting to the movable_type database instead of ours, and that it's running as a different user. You'll notice that neither of those things has anything to do with the host machine, which is the same....argh.

So... the point of this post is to see what might be going wrong as it tries to mirror this out to the live machines.

UPDATE: well...it seems to be doing something...so I'll continue to ignore it for now. On to figuring out image uploading.

yay.