From 25b5e8feded7b3e218f8d718cee5e71fbca74e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trenton H <797416+stumpylog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:45:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Improves the MariaDB wait command to use mariadb-admin ping
 for a better check if the server is up (#11396)

---
 docker/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-wait-for-db/run | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docker/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-wait-for-db/run b/docker/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-wait-for-db/run
index 1739edd61..9278e787d 100755
--- a/docker/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-wait-for-db/run
+++ b/docker/rootfs/etc/s6-overlay/s6-rc.d/init-wait-for-db/run
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ wait_for_mariadb() {
 	local -r host="${PAPERLESS_DBHOST:-localhost}"
 	local -r port="${PAPERLESS_DBPORT:-3306}"
 
-	while ! true > "/dev/tcp/$host/$port"; do
+	while ! mariadb-admin --host="$host" --port="$port" ping --silent >/dev/null 2>&1; do
         delay_next_attempt
 	done
 	echo "${LOG_PREFIX} Connected to MariaDB"