I have here a osCommerce 2.2-MS2. I had some settings before which were working fine. Now I changed the settings for the connection to the database (username, password, database, ...) but didn't noticed that the changes weren't saved. Now I want to check if my changes were successfull. I saw that there is a setting use persistent connection which is set to true. So I think he saves the old settings somewhere. How can I restart the connection to test if my new settings are OK?
Looks like it is the same issue you had with your other OSCommerce related question where your configuration.php was not actually saved because of 444 permissions and you saw a modified version with your FileZilla local file?