From ff6425fb22a56c7d135b82a03ba8a2a195bfff63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Hooker Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:48:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] better documentation --- website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md b/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md index 7b35370b4..0165ab5a1 100644 --- a/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md +++ b/website/source/docs/templates/communicator.html.md @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ The SSH communicator has the following options: connection. This defaults to false. * `ssh_read_write_timeout` (string) - The amount of time to wait for a remote - command to end. Example: "1h". Disabled by default. + command to end. This might be useful if, for example, packer hangs on + a connection after a reboot. Example: "5m". Disabled by default. - `ssh_timeout` (string) - The time to wait for SSH to become available. Packer uses this to determine when the machine has booted so this is