diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh b/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..dbadc860
--- /dev/null
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
+# (c) 2019 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
+# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
+#
+# Wrapper script to re-enable Pi-hole after a period of it being disabled.
+#
+# This script will be aborted by the `pihole enable` command using `killall`.
+# As a consequence, the filename of this script is limited to max 15 characters
+# and the script does not use `env`.
+#
+# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
+# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
+
+sleep "${1}"
+pihole enable
diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 065fb385..b0ba8473 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Time:
           local str="Disabling blocking for ${tt} seconds"
           echo -e "  ${INFO} ${str}..."
           local str="Blocking will be re-enabled in ${tt} seconds"
-          nohup bash -c "sleep ${tt}; ${PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR}/pihole enable" </dev/null &>/dev/null &
+          nohup "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/pihole-reenable.sh ${tt} </dev/null &>/dev/null &
         else
           local error=true
         fi
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Time:
           echo -e "  ${INFO} ${str}..."
           local str="Blocking will be re-enabled in ${tt} minutes"
           tt=$((${tt}*60))
-          nohup bash -c "sleep ${tt}; ${PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR}/pihole enable" </dev/null &>/dev/null &
+          nohup "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/pihole-reenable.sh ${tt} </dev/null &>/dev/null &
         else
           local error=true
         fi
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ Time:
     fi
   else
     # Enable Pi-hole
+    killall -q pihole-reenable
     if grep -cq "BLOCKING_ENABLED=true" "${setupVars}"; then
       echo -e "  ${INFO} Blocking already enabled, nothing to do"
       exit 0