From ee73840e9c6460cb85f3de81ada0c17dbc4fe2a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franco Fichtner <franco@opnsense.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:01:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] dpinger: back to where it was in April 2019

PR: #3693
---
 src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dpinger.inc | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dpinger.inc b/src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dpinger.inc
index 6ddec459b..d538aef19 100644
--- a/src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dpinger.inc
+++ b/src/etc/inc/plugins.inc.d/dpinger.inc
@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ function dpinger_configure_do($verbose = false, $gwname = null)
 
         $params .= exec_safe('%s ', $gateway['monitor']);
 
-        /* stdout to /dev/null because hangs otherwise */
-        mwexec("/usr/local/bin/dpinger {$params} > /dev/null");
+        /* foreground mode in background to deal with tentative connectivity */
+        mwexec_bg("/usr/local/bin/dpinger -f {$params}");
     }
 
     if ($verbose) {