From de99cda766115eb9b41ef231a6921b419ab4a073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Ertel <jason.ertel@securityonionsolutions.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:51:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] improve timing of responses

---
 salt/soc/files/bin/salt-relay.sh | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/salt/soc/files/bin/salt-relay.sh b/salt/soc/files/bin/salt-relay.sh
index fea81728d..783018b3a 100755
--- a/salt/soc/files/bin/salt-relay.sh
+++ b/salt/soc/files/bin/salt-relay.sh
@@ -37,12 +37,14 @@ function poll() {
 
 function respond() {
   file="$QUEUE_DIR/$1.response"
+  tmpfile=${file}.tmp
   response=$2
 
-  touch "$file"
-  chmod 660 "$file"
-  chown "$QUEUE_OWNER:$QUEUE_GROUP" "$file"
-  echo "$response" > "$file"
+  touch "$tmpfile"
+  chmod 660 "$tmpfile"
+  chown "$QUEUE_OWNER:$QUEUE_GROUP" "$tmpfile"
+  echo "$response" > "$tmpfile"
+  mv $tmpfile $file
 }
 
 function list_minions() {