Ansible reporting wrong service status

[Sidh]

Ansible - 2.4

With below snippet, service failed to start at remote host but ansible reports that lighttpd service has been restarted and ok. 

 

################

    - name: lighttpd config file

      template:

        src: lighttpd.conf.j2

        dest: /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

        owner: root

        group: root

        mode: 0644

      notify: Restart lighttpd

 handlers:

    - name: Restart lighttpd

      become: true

      service: name=lighttpd state=restarted

############

Note: It's happening with lighttpd only.

RUNNING HANDLER [Restart lighttpd] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************

changed: [HOSTNAME]

[Kai Stian Olstad]

The init system on the host is reporting OK(return code 0) so Ansible says everything is OK.
If that's not correct then you need to fix the init file/configuration.


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Sidh]

Thanks for your suggestion.

Regards,

Sidh