Demonstration of long running script

output

[will@tangerine nohup-test]$ ansible-playbook playbook.yml --limit 127.0.0.1

PLAY [all] ******************************************************************** 

GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** 
ok: [127.0.0.1]

TASK: [run long running script] *********************************************** 
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 268, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/bin/ansible-playbook", line 208, in main
    pb.run()
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 263, in run
    if not self._run_play(play):
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 578, in _run_play
    if not self._run_task(play, task, False):
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 363, in _run_task
    results = self._run_task_internal(task)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 322, in _run_task_internal
    results = runner.run()
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 972, in run
    results = [ self._executor(h, None) for h in hosts ]
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 392, in _executor
    exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 483, in _executor_internal
    return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 674, in _executor_internal_inner
    result = handler.run(conn, tmp, module_name, module_args, inject, complex_args)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins/normal.py", line 54, in run
    return self.runner._execute_module(conn, tmp, module_name, module_args, inject=inject, complex_args=complex_args)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 358, in _execute_module
    res = self._low_level_exec_command(conn, cmd, tmp, sudoable=sudoable)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 751, in _low_level_exec_command
    rc, stdin, stdout, stderr = conn.exec_command(cmd, tmp, sudo_user, sudoable=sudoable, executable=executable)
  File "/home/will/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/local.py", line 84, in exec_command
    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 754, in communicate
    return self._communicate(input)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1312, in _communicate
    stdout, stderr = self._communicate_with_poll(input)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1366, in _communicate_with_poll
    ready = poller.poll()
KeyboardInterrupt

playbook.yml

- hosts: all
  connection: local

  tasks: 
  - name: run long running script
    action: command ./sleeper.sh 10000

sleeper.sh

#!/bin/sh

(nohup sleep $1 2>&1 > sleep.out &)

version

[will@tangerine nohup-test]$ ansible --version
ansible 1.4 (devel d478eaa6a5) last updated 2013/11/01 13:33:01 (GMT +1000)