Notify service restart before executing next playbook action

[TextEditor]

My Postfix playbook sends a test email via the mail module. However this fails because postfix has not reloaded the configuration. I now have a manual service restart action in the playbook, however I was wondering if it is possible to have a notify handler executed during a playbook, not at the end of a playbook?

[benno joy]

I am not sure if notifiers can be executed during a playbook execution, but i think the manual service restart action can be made conditional based on a particluar action. So for example the task that updates the configuration can be registered and the service restart task can be triggered when the configuration task has changed .

task:

- name: update the postfix conf

  template: src=/foo dest=/bar

  register: result

- name: restart postfix

  service: name=postfix state=reloaded

  when_changed: $result

would this help, if idempotent task was the concern.

Benno

 

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, TextEditor <ma...@raymii.org> wrote:

My Postfix playbook sends a test email via the mail module. However this fails because postfix has not reloaded the configuration. I now have a manual service restart action in the playbook, however I was wondering if it is possible to have a notify handler executed during a playbook, not at the end of a playbook?

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[Brian Coca]

Why not make the mail a handler also?

Brian Coca

[TextEditor]

Because I always want the mail, not only when the postfix config changed...

Op dinsdag 2 april 2013 14:25:34 UTC+2 schreef Brian Coca het volgende:

[TextEditor]

This is a good idea. Thanks!

Op dinsdag 2 april 2013 09:39:11 UTC+2 schreef benno joy het volgende: