Is there a way to act on a failed task

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Hi,

I’m new to Ansible, and trying to find a way to write a file when a task fails. I’m cool with the play stopping so it’s not ignore_fail I’m looking for but something like

when: fail command echo “sometext” > /tmp/error

Is something like this possible, and if so, how ?

/Steen

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Off the top of my head (and untested (and before coffee) ) ...

- name: command that fails
  shell: exit 1
  register: last_command
  ignore_errors: true

- name catch failed command
  shell: echo "Oops!"
  when: last_command.rc != 0

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exactly!

4

Thanks for the reply. If I do it like that however I would need to stop the play explicitly since i ignore the errors. Is there a way to do that ?

/Steen

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​Add a subsequent fail: task when: last_command.rc != 0​

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Ah, thanks. Wasn’t aware of the fail task. That will do nicely.

/Steen