Look, that sucks meanwhile. The question was: "why is this not working"? Not: Who here is able to teach me best practice?
Because - this is something I can get around the corner. I give you the last word. Will not respond. Thanks [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021 um 19:08:47 UTC+2: > On 12/10/2021 19:04, 'Neil Young' via Ansible Project wrote: > > Posts disappear here... > > > > However, disregard. IMHO there is nothing wrong with "node server.js &" > and I was just trying to figure out why this doesn't work with Ansible. I > wasn't looking for a religious discussion. > > > > Neither me .. just pointing out common sense using Ansible and Unix > services. > > Regards > Racke > > > [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021 um 18:54:35 > UTC+2: > > > > On 12/10/2021 18:45, 'Neil Young' via Ansible Project wrote: > > > ...even though it might not be the high level of "best practice" (in > fact you can read a lot of this Racke comments, especially with Ansible) - > and I'm surely aware of that - it is a legit shell command. > > > > > > > Yes, but running a server through nohup is certainly bad practice. Nohup > is rather provided to prevent long running processes to be disrupted. > > > > There is no really good way to control the server when it is running. > How do you stop it for example? Restart it when it is crashed? Etc. > > > > And the shell called from Ansible doesn't have the same environment as > when you login as regular user. > > > > Regards > > Racke > > > > > > > > > > Neil Young schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021 um 18:43:12 UTC+2: > > > > > > Thanks for the helpful comment. > > > > > > [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021 um 18:42:33 > UTC+2: > > > > > > On 12/10/2021 17:28, 'Neil Young' via Ansible Project wrote: > > > > Hmm. I must be making again something fundamentally wrong :) > > > > > > > > > > Yes, you are trying to use Ansible as glorified shell *and* ignore all > the options to run a service properly (e.g. with systemd). > > > > > > Regards > > > Racke > > > > > > > Trying to start a simple node server app into background > > > > > > > > > > > > - name: Start server (run as non-privileged user) > > > > tags: server > > > > shell: | > > > > nohup node server.js 2>&1 & > > > > args: > > > > chdir: my-server-dir > > > > become: yes > > > > become_user: "{{ non_root_user }}" > > > > > > > > This runs w/o problems. 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