Starting nrpe client using ansible task

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I have written an ansible playbook to automate setup of nrpe 2.12 client which we use. The last step of the task is to start nrpe client as nagios user.

############### starting nrpe ################
  • name: go to INIT.D and start nrpe

become: yes

become_user: nagios

command: ./nrpe-server start

args:

chdir: /opt/app/nrpe-2.12/init.d

We have the ansible git repo being invoked from GOCD. In GOCD console, I am not finding any errors.

TASK [nrpe : go to INIT.D and start nrpe] **************************************
changed: [96.118.233.22]

When i login to server, it shows nrpe is running, but I am unable to see the nrpe process. I am unable to figure out what mistake am committing here. Would appreciate any help with this ?

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Normally you don’t want to use command/shell to start services, as they will probably kill the service when the task ends.

Using an init system (sysv init scripts, systemd) is normally much better and more reliable.

IF you still want to use the command/shell way, you should use nohup and background the service to avoid killing it on task end.