Ansible task not starting up custom node.js script with either shell or command module

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Hi,

Any ideas where I am going wrong here?

I have a web server task which uses shell to start apache no problem:

  • hosts: webservers
    remote_user: root
    become_user: test
    become: True
    tasks:
  • name: Task18 - Start webservers back up
    shell: ./apache/bin/apachectl start
    tags:
  • startweb

I have made a similar task to try start node for which I pass in the same ‘start’ arguement

  • hosts: nodes
    remote_user: root
    become_user: test
    become: True
    tasks:
  • name: Start node back up
    shell: .///init.d/etc.d/control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start
    tags:
  • startnode

This task fails with :

“msg”: “non-zero return code”, “rc”: 127, “start”: “2020-09-02 19:07:49.395993”, “stderr”: “sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory”,

This script definitely exists in this location and works if triggered manually:

./control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start
Starting NodeJS: 26182
NodeJS instance running

I have tried a different approach but I still get the same No such file or directory

tasks:

  • name: Change Directory
    command: cd ///init.d/etc.d/

  • command: “ls ///init.d/etc.d/”
    register: dir_out

  • debug: var={{item}}
    with_items: dir_out.stdout_lines

  • name: start nodejs
    command: sh control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh start

The output of the debug step above confirms the presence of the script as shown in the output below so i really don’t understand why it says the “control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh” can’t be found?

:

TASK Change Directory] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [hostname]
changed: [hostname]

TASK [command] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [ hostname ]
changed: [hostname]

TASK [debug] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [hostname] => (item=dir_out.stdout_lines) => {
“changed”: false,
“dir_out.stdout_lines”: [
“control.apache.sh”,
“control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh”
],
“item”: “dir_out.stdout_lines”
}
ok: [hostname] => (item=dir_out.stdout_lines) => {
“changed”: false,
“dir_out.stdout_lines”: [
“control.apache.sh”,
“control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh”
],
“item”: “dir_out.stdout_lines”
}

TASK start nodejs *****************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: [“sh”, “control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh”, “start”], “delta”: “0:00:00.007772”, “end”: “2020-09-02 19:07:49.098795”, “msg”: “non-zero return code”, “rc”: 127, “start”: “2020-09-02 19:07:49.091023”, “stderr”: “sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory”, “stderr_lines”: [“sh: control.postcodesio.nodejs.sh: No such file or directory”], “stdout”: “”, “stdout_lines”: }

Any ideas much appreciated.

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Hi,

you might want to ask this in the appropriate places, for example
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/

This mailing list / group is about discussing developing Ansible, and
not for support questions.

Thanks,
Felix Fontein