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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Have a server with a lull period
2. Have the MYSQL connection expire
3. Attempt to log to the database.

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: No operations allowed after conn$
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor139.newInstance(Unknown Source)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java$
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:407)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:382)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1013)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:987)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:982)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:927)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.throwConnectionClosedException(ConnectionImpl.java:1213)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.checkClosed(ConnectionImpl.java:1200)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createStatement(ConnectionImpl.java:2485)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createStatement(ConnectionImpl.java:2467)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at org.morganm.logores.Logger.DatabaseLogger.logEvent(DatabaseLogger.java:129)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at org.morganm.logores.LogEventProcessor.logEvent(LogEventProcessor.java:589)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at org.morganm.logores.LogEventProcessor.run(LogEventProcessor.java:568)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.scheduler.CraftWorker.run(CraftWorker.java:34)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE]    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
2012-04-05 08:41:43 [SEVERE] Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet successfully received from the server was 16,046,573 milliseconds ago.

MySQL connections timeout after 4 and a bit hours. A reconnect check would be great. Thankyou.