# Why does "service name=foo enabled=no" return '"changed:" false' when it disables a service?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 14, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354 "2013-02-14T04:53:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![VK1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@VK1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/VK1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354/1 "2013-02-14T04:53:45Z")

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Running ansible-1.0 under RHEL6.

Client:

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354/2 "2013-02-14T04:55:10Z")

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Probably because it's being dumb.

See also #1816.

We should fix this.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354/3 "2013-02-14T04:57:05Z")

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FYI, the state=null stuff is there because you didn't request the  
service be in any particular running/not-running state.

(in other words, enabled=yes/no is not a state, and just that got set)

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**Author:** ![VK1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bbce88/32.png) [@VK1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/VK1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354/4 "2013-02-14T05:11:14Z")

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Gotcha. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/why-does-service-name-foo-enabled-no-return-changed-false-when-it-disables-a-service/12354/5 "2013-02-14T12:25:19Z")

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It should never really return the 'null', BTW, that's easily fixable.