Tomcat restart failed...

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Hi,

  • hosts: dev_tomcat
    vars:
    http_port: 8080
    sudo: true
    sudo_user: build
    tasks:

  • name: copy_shut
    copy: src=/etc/ansible/playbooks/scripts/shutdown_all.sh dest=/tmp

  • name: change_permission_shut
    file: path=/tmp/shutdown_all.sh mode=777

  • name: copy_start
    copy: src=/etc/ansible/playbooks/scripts/startup_all.sh dest=/tmp

  • name: change_permission_start
    file: path=/tmp/startup_all.sh mode=777

  • name: stopping tomcat
    shell: /tmp/./shutdown_all.sh

  • name: starting tomcat

#command: sudo -u build /etc/init.d/tomcat start
shell: /tmp/./startup_all.sh

startup_all.sh => /etc/init.d/tomcat start

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My guess would be that your playbook tried to start it before it had finished shutting down.

Simplest thing to do would be wait a bit before trying the start, but it would be better to check it is down.

You could use wait_for module to check it is down:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/wait_for_module.html

Incidentally, checking that tomcat is fully up and ready to service requests is tricky as it seems to lock its listening port and then not respond on it for some time.

We used to just wait before polling a particular url but now we use a pattern similar to what is described here to poll until we get a 200

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/do-until$20with$20uri$20module|sort:relevance/ansible-project/iLjIbsCASWU/ZmE-wYdtLQAJ

Hope this helps,

Jon