how to set timeout for shell command

[Justin Jinsik Kim]

Hi,

I want to define response waiting time limit for all shell commands on ansible-playbook

test.yml:

....

- name: want to quit if it doesn't get response in 5 secs

  shell: "sleep 100"

- name: want to quit if it doesn't get response in 5 secs

  shell: "sleep 200"

- name: want to quit if it doesn't get response in 5 secs

  shell: "sleep 300"

....

I know I can use async method for each task but is there any simple way to do this for all shell module command?

I've tried this but it didn't work

ex> ansible-playbook test.yml .... -T 50

ex> add timeout=10 on ansible.cfg

Thanks in advance,

Justin

[James Cammarata]

Hi Justin, currently there is no general purpose timeout parameter for shell/commands, so the use of async as you've noted is the proper way to limit the execution time of a long-running task.

Thanks!

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[Karl E. Jorgensen]

Hi

There is also the shell command "timeout" (in Debian this is in the
coreutils package, not sure about other distros) - which can enforce a
timeout on a given shell command.

Perhaps that can help too?

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Karl E. Jorgensen