I've not looked at the code, but perhaps it is a bug. Since you seem to be able to reproduce, I suggest raising it in ansible modules extra project (using the issue template) https://github.com/ansible/ansible/raw/devel/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
You might be able to work around using changed_when - see http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_error_handling.html#controlling-what-defines-failure To do so, you might need to check if the service exists already, which you can do something like this (untested) - name: check if service exists raw: "Get-Service -Name 'appservice'" register: appservice_status ignore_errors: True Then you'd have to check the stdout stored in the registered appservice_status var to see if it exists. You could perhaps even use a when: clause so the win_nssm only runs when the service doesn't exist, although that wouldn't ever let you reconfigure the service in the same playbook (which may or may not be important to you). Hope this helps, Jon On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:11:45 UTC, Joe Levis wrote: > > Ubuntu 14.04, Ansible 2.0.0.2 > > I'm using win_nssm to install a service. It's successfully installing the > service, however all subsequent runs show the win_nssm task as 'changed'. > > Why is win_nssm showing 'changed' even though the service has already been > installed and nothing has been modified? Is it actually re-installing the > service? > > *Playbook:* > > win_nssm: > > name: servicename > > state: present > > application: C:\path\to\exe > > start_mode: manual > > user: ******** > > password: ******** > > > *Output:* > > TASK [appservice : Install appservice via NSSM] **************** > > changed: [server1.my.domain.com] > > > > Any way to condition around this? > -- 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/535af3b3-d09a-401c-ab1a-82370ea4ef7d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
