NTP Query vs. NTPstat using Ansible

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I setup a simple alias for my boss since he likes to run NTP queries for our rack system. One of my server wont return a ntpq -pn remotely but will execute it locally. Not sure why. Comes back with command not found rc=127, similar servers with the same OS Baseline have no issue. Just curious why this might be happening.

ansible -m shell -a “ntpq -pn” ‘servers-linux’

In my [servers-linux] inventory group is a mixed topology of 32 and 64 bit systems, all running CentOS or RHEL, 6.9 or 7.4.

Now if I run ansible -m -a “ntpstat” ‘servers-linux’ that same host returns a response instead of error code.

Any help is appreciated as to why this might be happening.

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Now I did find by adding the path to ntpq it resolved the issue, just not sure why I needed to on that one host when 2 identical hosts dont require the path to be sourced.

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The environment isn't the same on the hosts so PATH differ and it can't find ntpq.