# examples of $last\_result? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 4, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/examples-of-last-result/11954 "2012-10-04T21:53:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![James8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/examples-of-last-result/11954/1 "2012-10-04T21:53:10Z")
Hi, I have this playbook:   tasks:   - name: Copy new lhttpd     action: copy src=/Users/jmarcus/ServerConfig/svn/eXelators/WS200/files/lighttpd.conf.2012-10-04 dest=/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf owner=root group=root mode=0644 creates=/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf   - name: Stop lhttpd     action: service name=lhttpd pattern=/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd state=stopped   - name: Try to Pause for 10 seconds to let everything calm down     action: pause seconds=10   - name: Kill left over php-cgi procs     action: shell killall -9 php-cgi   - name: Start lhttpd     action: service name=lhttpd pattern=/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd state=started Its rare that PHP dies gracefully, of course today it is. I'm unclear on what I need to set in order to ignore the exit status of the shell killall action. Are there examples of this? bash-3.2$ ansible --version ansible 0.8 > [B] The result of the last command, as a dictionary, will be available in some variable like $last\_result. Use > this with the shell/command module to quickly add control logic with "only\_if", without having to write custom facts Thanks, James ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/examples-of-last-result/11954/2 "2012-10-04T21:57:39Z")
ignore\_errors: True only\_if: $last\_result.rc == 42