diff -Nur smeserver-sme9admin-1.5.old/root/usr/bin/sme9admind smeserver-sme9admin-1.5/root/usr/bin/sme9admind
--- smeserver-sme9admin-1.5.old/root/usr/bin/sme9admind 2014-12-24 01:41:01.000000000 -0500
+++ smeserver-sme9admin-1.5/root/usr/bin/sme9admind     2016-11-23 16:46:55.638000000 -0500
@@ -1021,10 +1021,17 @@
 #rewritten
 sub execute_sql_query {
     my ($requete)=(@_);
-    my $rq=$bd->prepare("$requete");
-    my $rslt=$rq->execute(); 
-    print "RQT MySQL : $requete , Reslt : $rslt/$!\n";
-    return $rslt;
+    if (defined ($bd)) {
+    	my $rq=$bd->prepare("$requete") or 
+		warn "MYSQL error $DBI::errstr\n";
+    	my $rslt=$rq->execute() or 
+		warn "MYSQL error $DBI::errstr\n"; 
+    	print "RQT MySQL : $requete , Reslt : $rslt/$!\n";
+    	return $rslt;
+	}
+        else
+        { print "mysql : no active connection to MySQL\n"; return 0;}
+
 }
 
 sub samba_status {