Ansible task not starting up custom node.js script with either shell or command module

[jonin]

Hi,

Any ideas where I am going wrong here?

I have a web server task which uses shell to start apache no problem:

- hosts: webservers

    remote_user: root

    become_user: test

    become: True

    tasks:

      - name: Task18 - Start webservers back up

        shell: ./apache/bin/apachectl start

    tags:

      - startweb

I have made a similar task to try start node for which I pass in the same 'start' arguement

- hosts: nodes

    remote_user: root

    become_user: test

    become: True

    tasks:

      - name:  Start node back up

        shell: ./***/***/init.d/etc.d/control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start

    tags:

      - startnode

This task fails with : 

 "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 127, "start": "2020-09-02 19:07:49.395993", "stderr": "sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory",

This script definitely exists in this location and works if triggered manually:

./control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start

Starting NodeJS: 26182

 NodeJS instance running

I have tried a different approach but I still get the same  No such file or directory

 tasks:

      - name:  Change Directory

        command: cd /***/***/init.d/etc.d/

      - command: "ls /***/***/init.d/etc.d/"

        register: dir_out

    

      - debug: var={{item}}

        with_items: dir_out.stdout_lines

       - name: start nodejs 

         command: sh control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start

The output of the debug step above confirms the presence of the script as shown in the output below so i really don't understand why it says the "control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh" can't be found?

:

TASK  Change Directory] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************

changed: [hostname]

changed: [hostname]

TASK [command] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

changed: [ hostname  ]

changed: [hostname]

TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [hostname] => (item=dir_out.stdout_lines) => {

    "changed": false,

    "dir_out.stdout_lines": [

        "control.apache.sh",

        "control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh"

    ],

    "item": "dir_out.stdout_lines"

}

ok: [hostname] => (item=dir_out.stdout_lines) => {

    "changed": false,

    "dir_out.stdout_lines": [

        "control.apache.sh",

        "control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh"

    ],

    "item": "dir_out.stdout_lines"

}

TASK start nodejs *****************************************************************************************************************************************

fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["sh", "control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh", "start"], "delta": "0:00:00.007772", "end": "2020-09-02 19:07:49.098795", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 127, "start": "2020-09-02 19:07:49.091023", "stderr": "sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory", "stderr_lines": ["sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

Any ideas much appreciated.

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[Felix Fontein]

Hi,

you might want to ask this in the appropriate places, for example
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/

This mailing list / group is about discussing developing Ansible, and
not for support questions.

Thanks,
Felix Fontein

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