Thanks Matt

Regards
Aprameya

On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 10:23:01 AM UTC-7, Matt Martz wrote:
>
> 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] 
> <javascript:>> 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
>>
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