Brennon, I believe this issue was just resolved in devel. See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/5848<https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/5848#issuecomment-33970121>
On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Brennon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm completely new to ansible here, so I apologize for any terminology > mistakes. I'm running ansible 1.5 on CentOS 6. In setting up a playbook, > I've come across an issue with how notify acts. Below are some snippets: > > <from main.yml for the role in question> > > - name: deploy nslcd.conf file > copy: src=etc/nslcd.conf dest=/etc/nslcd.conf owner=root group=root > mode=0600 > notify: > - restart nslcd > - refresh authconfig for nslcd > > > <from main.yml under handlers> > > - name: restart nslcd > service: name=nslcd state=restarted > > - name: refresh authconfig for nslcd > command: /usr/sbin/authconfig --enableldap --update > > > When I run this against a system that's already been configured, > everything seems fine. When I delete the file and kill the process on one > of the systems, however, I get the following. 1) The nslcd.conf file is > copied only to the system where it is missing, as expected. 2) restart > nslcd runs on both systems, even though it was only changed on one of them. > 3) refresh authconfig for nslcd runs on both systems, again even though it > was only needed on one system. > > As far as I can tell, whenever a handler is called it acts against all of > the hosts, not just those that were affected by the parent task. Is this > simply how this works? Or am I missing something? > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ansible-project%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Matt Martz [email protected] http://sivel.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
