running a command & remotely

[Abhijit Chakraborty]

Hi all,

              I am running a command using the command module. This is how it is

- name: start

    command: /opt/eate/bin/script.pl >/dev/null &

Now the problem is , after running the command, its not able to come out and i have to manually abort the playbook to come out of the execution.

How can i handle this so that after trigerring the command successfully  , it exits properly ?

[Brian Coca]

use nohup to detach the tty.

In any case, it is not a good way to start backgrounded services, it
is much better to use the init system or some other service control
software on the target.

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Brian Coca

[Mike Klebolt]

Sounds like you may want to use async “fire and forget” by specifying a poll value of 0.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_async.html