watchcat: allow define custom timeout
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Maintainer: @neheb, @jtkohl
Environment: openwrt-23.05
Description:
Could we please have a way to define our own value for the ping timeout 🙏
The actual implementation uses ping without specifying the -W parameter, which defaults to 10s
ping --help
[...]
-W SEC Seconds to wait for the first response (default 10)
Thanks a lot :)
EDIT: first draft PR openwrt/packages#25174
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Start with utils/watchcat/files/watchcat.sh at lines 138-147 and review the draft PR referenced as openwrt/packages#25174. Confirm how the requested configurable ping timeout fits the existing watchcat behavior and verify that the completed change supports a custom value while preserving the current default.
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- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
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