Can you have a handler notify another handler? Otherwise, you could use a post-task in your playbook, I suppose.
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 12:41:34 PM UTC-6, Dylan Martin wrote: > > Hi all, I have a strange one that I hope you can help me with. > > I'm trying to make a role for systemd service unit files. This is the > newfangled replacement for good ol' sysV init scripts in Rhel7, any recent > Fedora and a lot of other linux distros. > > The workflow is supposed to go something like this. > > 1) edit/install a unit file, like /etc/systemd/system/myservice.service > 2) run systemctl daemon-reload > 3) run systemctl enable myservice > 4) run systemctl start myservice > > daemon-reload tells the systemd daemon to re-read the unit files so it > will know you changed something > > In ansible, I interpret that as looking like > > 1) template out unit file > 2) notify daemon-reload handler if unit file changed > 3) service enable=true state=started name=myservice > > The problem is, if I've changed the unit file, the daemon-reload runs > after the service enable/start, so systemd doesn't know to re-read the unit > file before trying to start/enable the service. > > I could just make it run daemon-reload every time the role runs, which > kindof sucks. Also, if I'm installing a boatload of unit files, I'd like > to do a daemon-reload only once to get them all. I could make the > daemon-reload a normal task that only runs when the template changes, but > that means I'd be running the daemon-reload once for every unit file, which > sucks in the case where I'm installing a boatload of them. I looked at > post_task, but that's not for roles. > > Does anyone know a good way to do this? > > Thanks! > -Dylan > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a91a236a-664c-43cf-b6c6-d0cb19e177c9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
