# Stop displaying stdout when task fails **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [December 31, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-displaying-stdout-when-task-fails/26397 "2017-12-31T00:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Adolphson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Adolphson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adolphson)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-displaying-stdout-when-task-fails/26397/1 "2017-12-31T00:19:47Z")
I have a task that sends a reboot command to a host, then pings every 10-seconds until a ping has failed. This indicates the hosts has begun the reboot and moves on the a ping every 60-seconds waiting for a ping success indicating the host is back up. It works fine with no issues. The only thing is the fatal output when the ping fails, I would like to stop this from displaying. i have no\_logs: true and ignore\_errors set already, but can not figure out how to stop the output. **The code snippet:** - name: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. local\_action: raw ping -c 1 -W 1 {{vars[inventory\_hostname].IP\_Address}} register: output until: output.stdout.find(“0 received”) != -1 retries: 12 delay: 10 ignore\_errors: true - name: Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success. local\_action: shell ping -c 1 {{vars[inventory\_hostname].IP\_Address}} register: result until: result.stdout.find(“64 bytes from”) != -1 retries: 15 delay: 60 ignore\_errors: true **The tasks output, want to suppress the red:** TASK [base\_config\_oam : Send Reboot Command] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* changed: [vsrx-01] TASK [base\_config\_oam : Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure.] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (12 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (11 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (10 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (9 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (8 retries left). FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (7 retries left). fatal: [vsrx-01 → localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“censored”: “the output has been hidden due to the fact that ‘no\_log: true’ was specified for this result”} STDOUT: PING 192.168.1.209 (192.168.1.209) 56(84) bytes of data. — 192.168.1.209 ping statistics — 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms MSG: non-zero return code …ignoring TASK [base\_config\_oam : Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success.] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* FAILED - RETRYING: Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success. (15 retries left). ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-displaying-stdout-when-task-fails/26397/2 "2017-12-31T12:20:01Z")
Why not just use the wait\_for\_connection[1] module that is designed for this? [1] [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/wait\_for\_connection\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/wait_for_connection_module.html) ---
**Author:** ![Adolphson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Adolphson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adolphson)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stop-displaying-stdout-when-task-fails/26397/3 "2017-12-31T22:08:15Z")
I was reading about custom callbacks and modified the default stdout\_callback module to no display the fatal outputs.