If you are using the `command` module, this is because `command` doesn't understand shell constructs such as `&`
You would need to use the `shell` module instead. However, you are still likely to have issues with this. The command will still likely end before you expect. I'd really recommend creating a real service that can start and potentially monitor this command more appropriately. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Aprameya NDS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a traffic tool for which i have written a module with the required > options which i send to be triggered through Ansible for execution. > > It goes this way: > > "/opt/medusa_labs/test_tools/bin/maim -b256k -Q8 -f/dev/sdc &" > > When executing on the host i get the following error: "*(program startup > error)\n\nERROR: INIT: '&' is an unrecognized command line parameter\n"}*" > > Here '&' is being taken as an option rather than telling it to run as a > background. Manually running the same command on the host works fine. > > The reason for going with this approach is that Async and Poll when used, > log files do not get created by the traffic tool and when run without this > its a kind of infinite command which runs for ever. > > So can anyone please give some suggestions/ideas on the approach that can > solve this? > > Regards > Aprameya > > -- > 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/e467807f-6d89-4e33-a216-adc73b7ac06c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e467807f-6d89-4e33-a216-adc73b7ac06c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v_N5YqN76BsWS-sQ__MpLZz7D7noKEcYKgzrKL_WmMcLw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
