Conditional skipped?

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My little playbook:

  • hosts: all
    become: true
    become_user: root
    become_method: sudo

tasks:

  • name: Update McAfee virus definitions
    shell: /opt/McAfee/LinuxShield/bin/nails task --run 1
    register: result

  • name: Update McAfee virus definitions 2
    shell: /opt/NAI/LinuxShield/bin/nails task --run 1
    when: result|failed

I did this because one of my hosts doesn’t have nails installed where the rest do. Why? Dunno. But when I run this, all of the hosts that have the first command run successfully are skipped, as I expected, but the one isn’t mentioned at all, other than the failure in the first case. That one host was completely skipped for the second command. Any ideas why?

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When the a task fails for a host, Ansible will stop the play for that host and no subsequent task will be executed if ignore_errors is not set to true.