From 8aa40a6264318236c4c237e17b2dd1283fa331c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:48:26 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] make ping only ping once, and wait for a max of three seconds
 for a response

---
 sshsendmail | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sshsendmail b/sshsendmail
index 62efbb4..c9c4530 100755
--- a/sshsendmail
+++ b/sshsendmail
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ EOF
 $Data::Dumper::Useqq=0;
 print STDERR Dumper(\@ssh_arguments);
 
-qx(ping -q -c 3 $hostname 2>/dev/null);
+qx(ping -q -w 3 -c 1 $hostname 2>/dev/null);
 if ($?) {
     syslog(LOG_WARNING,"${0}: Failed: unable to ping $hostname\n");
     exit (9);
-- 
2.39.2