On 12/10/2021 20:20, 'Neil Young' via Ansible Project wrote:
Yes, now everyone understands that you've got it.Anyone else with an answer to the actual question? Why is that not possible?
Did you try to remove the redirection from your shell command and look at
stdout/stderr (with register + debug task)?
Regards
Racke
I don't mean: Why can't you do that? [email protected] schrieb am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2021 um 20:09:54 UTC+2: On 12/10/2021 20:00, 'Neil Young' via Ansible Project wrote: > 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 > Fair enough, but the trouble is other users might reuse your questionable examples. Racke > > [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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